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excrement

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈɛkskɹəmənt/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Human and non-human animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, specifically, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any waste matter excreted from the human or non-human animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: excretion, excretum

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: body waste, excretion, excreta, excretory product

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product

Narrower terms: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection, fecula, wormcast, human waste, urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water, vomit, vomitus, puke, barf, guano

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excernō (“to excrete”).

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excrēscō (“to grow out”).

Across languages

Translations

175 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: адәынца́ра (adwəncára) — human and animal solid waste
  • Arabic: غَائِط (ḡāʔiṭ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Arabic: بِرَاز (birāz) — human and animal solid waste
  • Arabic: خَرَاء (ḵarāʔ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Arabic: خِرَاء (ḵirāʔ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Armenian: կղկղանք (kġkġankʻ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Azerbaijani: nəcis — human and animal solid waste
  • Balinese: tai — human and animal solid waste
  • Belarusian: спаражне́ння (sparažnjénnja) — human and animal solid waste
  • Belarusian: экскрыме́нты (ekskrymjénty) — human and animal solid waste
  • Belarusian: кал (kal) — human and animal solid waste
  • Belarusian: фека́ліі (fjekálii) — human and animal solid waste
  • Bulgarian: изпражне́ние (izpražnénie) — human and animal solid waste
  • Bulgarian: фека́лии (fekálii) — human and animal solid waste
  • Bulgarian: екскреме́нти (ekskreménti) — human and animal solid waste
  • Burmese: မစင် (ma.cang) — human and animal solid waste
  • Burmese: ချေး (hkye:) — human and animal solid waste
  • Burmese: အညစ်အကြေး (a.nyaca.kre:) — human and animal solid waste
  • Catalan: femta — human and animal solid waste
  • Tedim Chin: eek — human and animal solid waste
  • Chinese Cantonese: 屎 (si2) — human and animal solid waste
  • Chinese: дафын (dafɨn) — human and animal solid waste
  • Chinese: сы (sɨ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Chinese Mandarin: 大便 (dàbiàn) — human and animal solid waste
  • Chinese Mandarin: 屎 (shǐ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糞 /粪 (fèn) — human and animal solid waste
  • Czech: výkal — human and animal solid waste
  • Czech: stolice — human and animal solid waste
  • Danish: ekskrement — human and animal solid waste
  • Danish: afføring — human and animal solid waste
  • Dutch: uitwerpselen — human and animal solid waste
  • Egyptian: H-s-F52 (ḥs) — human and animal solid waste
  • Esperanto: feko — human and animal solid waste
  • Esperanto: ekskremento — human and animal solid waste
  • Fijian: dā — human and animal solid waste
  • Finnish: lanta — human and animal solid waste
  • Finnish: uloste — human and animal solid waste
  • French: excrément — human and animal solid waste
  • Galician: excremento — human and animal solid waste
  • Gamilaraay: guna — human and animal solid waste
  • Georgian: ექსკრემენტები (eksḳremenṭebi) — human and animal solid waste
  • Georgian: ფეკალია (peḳalia) — human and animal solid waste
  • Georgian: განავალი (ganavali) — human and animal solid waste
  • German: Ausscheidungen — human and animal solid waste
  • German: Kot — human and animal solid waste
  • Greek: περίττωμα (períttoma) — human and animal solid waste
  • Ancient Greek: κοπρία (kopría) — human and animal solid waste
  • Ancient Greek: σκῶρ (skôr) — human and animal solid waste
  • Ancient Greek: μίνθος (mínthos) — human and animal solid waste
  • Ancient Greek: ὄνθος (ónthos) — human and animal solid waste
  • Gujarati: ગૂ (gū) — human and animal solid waste
  • Gujarati: હગાર (hagār) — human and animal solid waste
  • Gujarati: હંગણ (haṅgaṇ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Gujarati: છી (chī) — human and animal solid waste
  • Hawaiian: kūkae — human and animal solid waste
  • Higaonon: ta-i — human and animal solid waste
  • Hindi: टट्टी (ṭaṭṭī) — human and animal solid waste
  • Hindi: मल (mal) — human and animal solid waste
  • Hindi: गू (gū) — human and animal solid waste
  • Hindi: गूह (gūh) — human and animal solid waste
  • Hindi: गुह (guh) — human and animal solid waste
  • Hindi: गोबर (gobar) — human and animal solid waste
  • Hindi: पाखाना (pākhānā) — human and animal solid waste
  • Hindi: विष्ठा (viṣṭhā) — human and animal solid waste
  • Hungarian: ürülék — human and animal solid waste
  • Ido: exkremento — human and animal solid waste
  • Indonesian: tahi — human and animal solid waste
  • Italian: escremento — human and animal solid waste
  • Japanese: 便 (ben) — human and animal solid waste
  • Japanese: 大便 (daiben) — human and animal solid waste
  • Japanese: うんこ (unko) — human and animal solid waste
  • Japanese: うんち (unchi) — human and animal solid waste
  • Japanese: 糞 — human and animal solid waste
  • Javanese: tai — human and animal solid waste
  • Khmer: គូទ (kuut) — human and animal solid waste
  • Khmer: វច្ច (vaccaʼ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Khmer: ឧច្ចារ (ʼuccaaraʼ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Khmer: លាមក (liəmŭək) — human and animal solid waste
  • Korean: 똥 (ttong) — human and animal solid waste
  • Korean: 뒤 (dwi) — human and animal solid waste
  • Korean: 대변 (daebyeon) — human and animal solid waste
  • Lao: ອາຈົມ (ʼā chom) — human and animal solid waste
  • Lao: ອຸດຈາຣະ (ʼut chā ra) — human and animal solid waste
  • Lao: ຂີ້ (khī) — human and animal solid waste
  • Latin: fimum — human and animal solid waste
  • Latin: ēgeriēs — human and animal solid waste
  • Latin: stercus — human and animal solid waste
  • Latin: excrementum — human and animal solid waste
  • Latin: merda — human and animal solid waste
  • : ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii2) — human and animal solid waste
  • Macedonian: и́змет (ízmet) — human and animal solid waste
  • Macedonian: екскреме́нт (ekskremént) — human and animal solid waste
  • Malay: air besar — human and animal solid waste
  • Malay: tahi — human and animal solid waste
  • Malay: tinja — human and animal solid waste
  • Malayalam: മലം (malaṁ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Malayalam: തീട്ടം (tīṭṭaṁ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Malayalam: കാട്ടം (kāṭṭaṁ) — human and animal solid waste
  • Māori: tae — human and animal solid waste
  • Māori: tūtae — human and animal solid waste
  • Māori: hamuti — human and animal solid waste
  • Māori: paru — human and animal solid waste
  • Māori: paranga — human and animal solid waste
  • Māori: weta — human and animal solid waste
  • Māori: karaweta — human and animal solid waste
  • Māori: paraweta — human and animal solid waste
  • Mokilese: pwije — human and animal solid waste
  • Mongolian: баас (baas) — human and animal solid waste
  • Mongolian: шээс (šees) — human and animal solid waste
  • Navajo: chąąʼ — human and animal solid waste
  • Ngarrindjeri: kunar — human and animal solid waste
  • Norwegian Bokmål: avføring — human and animal solid waste
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: avføring — human and animal solid waste
  • Nǀuu: tyxan — human and animal solid waste
  • Nǀuu: cxan — human and animal solid waste
  • Ojibwe: moo — human and animal solid waste
  • Old East Slavic: говьно (govĭno) — human and animal solid waste
  • Oromo: udaan — human and animal solid waste
  • Pitjantjatjara: kuna — human and animal solid waste
  • Plautdietsch: Kak — human and animal solid waste
  • Polish: fekalia — human and animal solid waste
  • Polish: kał — human and animal solid waste
  • Polish: odchody — human and animal solid waste
  • Polish: ekskrementy — human and animal solid waste
  • Portuguese: excremento — human and animal solid waste
  • Portuguese: fezes — human and animal solid waste
  • Quechua: q'awa — human and animal solid waste
  • Quechua: aka — human and animal solid waste
  • Romagnol: càca — human and animal solid waste
  • Romanian: excrement — human and animal solid waste
  • Romanian: materii fecale — human and animal solid waste
  • Romanian: fecale — human and animal solid waste
  • Russian: кал (kal) — human and animal solid waste
  • Russian: экскреме́нты (ekskreménty) — human and animal solid waste
  • Russian: испражне́ния (ispražnénija) — human and animal solid waste
  • Russian: фека́лии (fekálii) — human and animal solid waste
  • Samoan: tae — human and animal solid waste
  • Sanskrit: गूथ (gūtha) — human and animal solid waste
  • Serbo-Croatian: екскремент — human and animal solid waste
  • Serbo-Croatian: измет — human and animal solid waste
  • Serbo-Croatian: ekskrement — human and animal solid waste
  • Serbo-Croatian: izmet — human and animal solid waste
  • Serbo-Croatian: izmetine — human and animal solid waste
  • Slovak: výkal — human and animal solid waste
  • Slovene: blato — human and animal solid waste
  • Slovene: iztrebek — human and animal solid waste
  • Slovene: izloček — human and animal solid waste
  • Spanish: excremento — human and animal solid waste
  • Swedish: avföring — human and animal solid waste
  • Tausug: tai — human and animal solid waste
  • Tetum: teen — human and animal solid waste
  • Thai: อาจม (aa-jom) — human and animal solid waste
  • Thai: อุจจาระ (ùt-jaa-rá) — human and animal solid waste
  • Thai: ขี้ (kîi) — human and animal solid waste
  • Tocharian B: weṃts — human and animal solid waste
  • Turkish: dışkı — human and animal solid waste
  • Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok) — human and animal solid waste
  • Ukrainian: ви́порожнення (výporožnennja) — human and animal solid waste
  • Ukrainian: екскреме́нти (ekskreménty) — human and animal solid waste
  • Ukrainian: кал (kal) — human and animal solid waste
  • Ukrainian: фека́лії (fekáliji) — human and animal solid waste
  • Urdu: گو (gu) — human and animal solid waste
  • Urdu: گوہ (guh) — human and animal solid waste
  • Uzbek: najas — human and animal solid waste
  • Uzbek: axlat — human and animal solid waste
  • Vietnamese: phân — human and animal solid waste
  • Vietnamese: cứt — human and animal solid waste
  • Warlpiri: kuna — human and animal solid waste
  • Woiwurrung: koonong — human and animal solid waste
  • Zande: mire — human and animal solid waste
  • Zazaki: gi (diq) — human and animal solid waste
  • Zhuang: haex — human and animal solid waste
  • Finnish: erite — any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body
  • Polish: ekskrementy — any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body
  • Ukrainian: екскреме́нти (ekskreménty) — any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body