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zombie
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)
- A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
- (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
- (figuratively) An apathetic person.
- (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
- Synonym: intellectual prostitute
- (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.
- 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.
- (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
- 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.
- 1976, Harvard Advocate CX:ii, pages 8 and 380:
- (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?
- 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
- (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- (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)
- 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)
- zombie
Derived terms
- smombie
Finnish
Noun
zombie
- Alternative form of zombi
Declension
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /z??.bi/
Adjective
zombie
- feminine singular of zombi
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?zom.bi/
Noun
zombie m or f (invariable)
- 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)
- 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)
- (voodoo) zombie (person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own)
- (fiction) zombie (deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living)
- (film) zombie film
- (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)
- zombie
Declension
Synonyms
- zombi m
- zombia f
References
- zombie in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Spanish
Noun
zombie m (plural zombies)
- Alternative spelling of zombi
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?mb?/
Etymology
Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.
Noun
zombie c
- zombie
Declension
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frankenstein
English
Noun
frankenstein (plural frankensteins)
- Alternative form of Frankenstein
Verb
frankenstein (third-person singular simple present frankensteins, present participle frankensteining, simple past and past participle frankensteined)
- Alternative spelling of Frankenstein
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