🇬🇧 Litter meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To litter means to throw or leave rubbish on the ground in a public place instead of putting it in a trash can. When people litter, they make parks, streets, and playgrounds dirty and messy. Littering can hurt animals, pollute water, and make places look and smell bad. We should always throw our rubbish in a bin so we don’t litter and we help keep the Earth clean.

The alien landed, saw humans litter, and decided the cows were probably the smarter species.

I tried to litter in front of my little sister, and she shouted, “Plot twist: you’re the villain!”

The park sign said, “Do not litter,” and underneath someone wrote, “The squirrels are watching.”

I told my little cousin that if he litters, the trash gremlins will put all the rubbish back in his bed; he now lectures adults about bins.

Some places fine people a lot of money if they litter, so technically that gum wrapper could cost more than your whole lunch.

At the pond, a young man began to litter. A small girl shouted, "Don't litter!" He almost dropped another wrapper and would litter again, but she held out a small bin and said, "Choose not to litter." He hesitated, smiled, put the trash in the bin, and agreed he would not litter.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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