English Explanatory Dictionary

jungle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
  2. Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
  3. A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
  4. A tangled mess.
  5. An area where hobos camp together.
  6. A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
  7. Dense rough.
  8. A dense mass of pubic hair.
adj
  1. resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.

Pronunciation

En-us-jungle.ogg /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/

Word forms

jungle jungles jangal

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.

Synonyms

tiger country

Related words

rainforest

Derived words

asphalt jungle beat like a jungle drum blackboard jungle concrete jungle dark jungle glory hobo jungle it's a jungle out there jungle babbler jungle bear jungle bendy jungle boot jungle bunny jungle cat jungle cock jungle crow jungle curry jungled jungle drums jungle fever jungle fowl junglefowl jungle glory jungle green jungle gym jungle hen jungle juice jungle justice jungleless junglelike jungle mouth jungle nymph jungle primary jungler jungle raj jungle rice jungle rot jungleside jungle telegraph junglewear junglewood junglism junglist jungly jungular King of the Jungle law of the jungle Meinong's jungle nonjungle rubber jungle smoky jungle frog underjungle vajungle you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey
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