Soil

Noun

 * 1)  A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
 * 2)  The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
 * 3)  The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
 * 4)  Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
 * 5)  In medical terms, a bag containing soiled items.
 * 6)  Country or territory.
 * The refugees returned to their native soil.

Synonyms

 * dirt, earth

Derived terms

 * home soil
 * native soil


 * soilless
 * soil pipe


 * topsoil

Related terms

 * solum

Verb

 * 1) To make dirty.
 * 2)  To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
 * 3) reflexively: to soil oneself
 * 4) To make invalid, to ruin.

Synonyms

 * smirch, besmirch, dirty

Derived terms

 * soil oneself

Noun

 * 1)  Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
 * 2)  In medical terms, a bag containing soiled items.

Synonyms

 * dirt

Noun

 * 1) A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.

Adjectives for Soil
humid; volcanic; fenny; blood-stained; hallowed; luxuriant; teeming; sterile; sifted; repressed; alluvial;  enchanted;  thirsty; marshy; unbroken; unproductive; friendly; noxious; ill-smelling; fertile; wholesome; friable; sacred; desolate; accursed; fruitful; parched; arid; sandy; indistinguishable; ancient; smoking; niggardly; poor; rich; radiant; favored; fallow; cultivated; kind; surrounding; ungrateful; neglected; peaty; wretched; congenial; tillable; swampy; burning; mangled; barren; foreign; adjacent; drenched; crusty; virgin; exhausted; devastated; mortal; tropic; native; alien; nitrous; conquered; oozy; crumbling.

Verbs for Soil
cleave—; conserve—; cultivate—; devitalize—; drain—; enrich—; fertilize—; furrow—; harrow—; irrigate—; impregnate—; preserve—; pry from—; renew—; renounce ——; revitalize—; ridge up—; rob—; root in —; scratch—; set foot on—; smell—; sow—; starve—; till—; wring from—; —begrimes; —blesses; —erodes; —procreates; —satisfies; —smudges.

Adverbs for Soil
carelessly; obnoxiously; markedly; hopelessly; disgustingly; annoyingly; exasperatingly.

Thesaurus
abuse, acres, adobe, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, area, attaint, bedaub, befoul, begrime, belt, benasty, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, betray, black, blacken, blot, blotch, blow upon, blur, bole, brand, call names, censure, china clay, clay, clod, confines, contaminate, continental shelf, corridor, corrupt, country, crust, darken, daub, debauch, deceive, defame, defile, deflower, demoralize, denigrate, department, despoil, dirt, dirty, disapprove, discolor, disgrace, disparage, district, division, drabble, draggle, dregs, dry land, dust, earth, engage in personalities, environs, excrement, expose, expose to infamy, filth, force, foul, freehold, gibbet, glebe, grassland, ground, gumbo, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, heartland, hinterland, humus, kaolin, land, landholdings, lead astray, lithosphere, loam, loess, marginal land, mark, marl, mess, milieu, mire, mislead, mold, motherland, muck, muckrake, mucky, mud, muddy, murk, nasty, neighborhood, offshore rights, part, parts, pillory, place, pollute, porcelain clay, precincts, premises, purlieus, quarter, rape, ravage, ravish, real estate, real property, red clay, refuse, region, regolith, reprimand, revile, ruin, salient, sand, scorch, sear, section, seduce, silt, singe, slubber, sludge, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smooch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, sod, soilage, soilure, space, spoil, spot, stain, stigmatize, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, three-mile limit, throw mud at, till, topsoil, turf, twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, vilify, violate, vitiate, waste matter, woodland, zone

Etymology 1
From soile:, soyle:, sule:, partly from  soyl:, from  solium:, mistaken for  solum:; and partly from  sol:, from, from. Cognate with söle:,  sol:,  sol:, söl:,  søle:. See also.

Etymology 2
From soilen:, soulen:, suylen:, partly from  soillier:, souillier:, of  origin, from  *undefined:; partly from  solian:, sylian:, from, from. Cognate with sulian:,  soluwen:, seulewen:,  solagon:, bisullen:,  dialectal sühlen:,  søle:,  söla:,  𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽:.

Etymology 3
From soyl:, from  soil:, souil:, of  origin, from  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with syle:, sylu:, sylen:,  sol:, gisol:,  Suhle:.

Noun

 * Armenian: հող (hoġ)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 泥土 (nítǔ)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 土 (つち, tsuchi)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:


 * Malayalam: മണ്ണ് (maNNu)
 * Nahuatl: tlālpantli
 * Navajo:
 * Persian: خاک
 * Polish: ziemia
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: sol
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: talamh, ùir
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Taos: ną̀méne
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: հող (hoġ)
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: jord, muldjord
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Erdreich
 * Hungarian: táptalaj
 * Italian:
 * Navajo:


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ziemia
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: teren, sol
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: talamh, ùir
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Taos: ną̀méne
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: հող (hoġ)
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Navajo:
 * Polish: gleba, grunt


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: talamh, ùir
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Taos: ną̀méne
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,


 * Malayalam: മലമൂത്രം (malamoothram)
 * Tagalog:


 * Armenian: հող (hoġ)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Persian: خاک


 * Polish: ziemia
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * : (túrba)
 * : 土 (tǔ)
 * : terre
 * : Erde
 * : sulo
 * : terra


 * : 흙 (heuk)
 * : (xak)
 * : meçi
 * : tierra

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Danish: tilsøle, svine til, besudle
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, beschmutzen
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Persian: (xâki kardan)
 * Polish: brudzić
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skita ner, smutsa ner


 * Persian: (xâki kardan)


 * : souiller

Anagrams

 * Lois, oils, silo

Adjective

 * 1) bald

Noun

 * 1) rice

Etymology
, perhaps from solium:, by association with solum:.