Meaning: This noun refers to the waste material or rubbish, especially left after a particular event.
Origin: Now obsolete, geologically, the word referred to "process of erosion”, originating from the Latin word detritus, meaning "a wearing away" from de (“away”) + terere ("to rub, wear"). The use of the word in a figurative or transferred sense of “waste material, debris” is by 1834.
Usage: The stadium was littered with the detritus of yesterday's rock concert.
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