Noun: compost
| Singular | compost |
| Plural | composts |
Sample Sentences
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Dig plenty of compost into clay or sandy soil to improve its structure.
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And do not spread the compost on the weeds / To make them ranker. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:]
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[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground. [2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G7:]
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Once the seed tray is filled with compost, insert the seeds spaced 3 cm apart from one another.
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[T]he term 'compost' is commonly used to mean the material used to fill pots, seed trays and containers. [Royal Horticultural Society, Organic matter: what is it?, retrieved 29 Mar 2021:]
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A sad compost of more bitter than sweet. [a. 1660, Henry Hammond, God's Complaint Against Revolters:]
Nouns inflected like compost
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English compost, from Old Northern French compost (“a mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land, also a condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed”), from componere. Doublet of compote, which was taken from modern French, composite, and kompot. See: Middle English Nouns '
compost', Latin Nouns '
compositus'.
Verbs referencing "compost"
Catalan Nouns
compost, Dutch Nouns
compost, Polish Nouns
kompost.