different between republican vs zombie

English

Etymology

From republic +? -an, partly after French républicain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???p?bl?k?n/
• Rhymes: -p?bl?k?n

Adjective

republican (comparative more republican, superlative most republican)

1. Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism. [from 17th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 222:

     Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements).

2. Of or belonging to a republic. [from 17th c.]
3. Relating to the U.S. Republican Party

Translations

Noun

republican (plural republicans)

1. Someone who favors a republic as a form of government. [from 17th c.]
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson:

     Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'
2. A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.

Synonyms

• anti-monarchist
• antiroyalist

Translations

Ladin

Adjective

republican m (feminine singular republicana, masculine plural republicans, feminine plural republicanes)

1. republican

Related terms

• republica

Spanish

Verb

republican

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of republicar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of republicar.

English

Alternative forms

• zombi
• zomby (rare)
• zumbi (uncommon)

Etymology

[1819] Ultimately from a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”). May have come through Louisiana Creole French [Term?]. See also French zombi.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?z?mbi/
• (General American) enPR: z?m?b?, IPA^(key): /?z?mbi/
• Rhymes: -?mbi
• Hyphenation: zom?bie

Noun

zombie (plural zombies)

1. A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
2. (voodoo, fiction) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.

   Synonyms: ghoul, living dead, walker, walking dead, (slang) zed
3. (figuratively) An apathetic person.
4. (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.

5. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.

   Synonym: intellectual prostitute

6. (computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
   • 1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.

     9. The process executed the exit system call and is in the zombie state. The process no longer exists, but it leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent process to collect. The zombie state is the final state of a process.

7. (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
8. A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
   • 1976, Harvard Advocate CX:ii, pages 8 and 380:

     The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie with him. Those zombies are wicked.

     […]

     I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.

9. (Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
   • 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,

     Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?

10. (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
11. (philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

    Synonym: p-zombie

Derived terms

Translations

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?zombi?]
• IPA^(key): [?zomb??]

Noun

zombie n (also sometimes feminine)

1. zombie

Declension

Synonyms

• zombík
• nemrtvý

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?m.bi/
• Hyphenation: zom?bie

Noun

zombie m (plural zombies, diminutive zombietje n)

1. zombie

Derived terms

• smombie

Finnish

Noun

zombie

1. Alternative form of zombi

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z??.bi/

Adjective

zombie

1. feminine singular of zombi

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?zom.bi/

Noun

zombie m or f (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of zombi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From a Bantu language, via English zombie

Noun

zombie m (definite singular zombien, indefinite plural zombier, definite plural zombiene)

1. a zombie

See also

• zombi (Nynorsk) (although the spelling "zombie" is apparently also used)

References

• “zombie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Polish

Alternative forms

• zombi

Etymology

From English zombie, from a Bantu language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?m.b?i/

Noun

zombie m anim (indeclinable)

1. (voodoo) zombie (person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own)
2. (fiction) zombie (deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living)
3. (film) zombie film
4. (computing) zombie (computer affected by malware))

Further reading

• zombie in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• zombie in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Etymology

Ultimately, from a Bantu language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?zombi?e]

Noun

zombie m (genitive singular zombieho, nominative plural zombieovia, genitive plural zombieov, declension pattern of kuli)

1. zombie

Declension

Synonyms

• zombi m
• zombia f

References

• zombie in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Noun

zombie m (plural zombies)

1. Alternative spelling of zombi

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mb?/

Etymology

Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.

Noun

zombie c

1. zombie

Declension