dirt meaning
EN
[dɜːt] [dɝt] [-ɜː(ɹ)t] 
US WDirt
- Dirt is a material found on the Earth's crust. The term dirty refers to having made contact with a person's clothes, skin, or possessions.
- Common types include:
- soil: a mix of clay, sand, and humus which lies over terrestrial bedrock. When mixed with water, soil becomes mud.
- dust: a powder of organic or mineral matter
- grime: dark, ingrained dust such as soot or ash
- filth: foul matter such as excrement or referring to a significant accumulation of such.
- NounPLdirts
- Soil or earth.
- A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip.
- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- (figuratively) Meanness; sordidness.
- (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- Soil or earth.
- VerbSGdirtsPRdirtingPT, PPdirted
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind. — Gov. of Tongue.
- Drive down the straight, red dirt road through flat acres of tempranillo vines to the low-lying building of cedar strips with its undulating aluminum roof and one tall wave erupting in the middle.
- After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of dirt in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "dirt" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.