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zoo
English
Etymology
Clipping of zoological garden, now the usual form. See zoology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zu?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Noun
zoo (plural zoos)
- A park where live animals are exhibited.
- (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
- (US, military, slang) The jungle.
- 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)
- I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.
- 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)
- (slang) A zoophile.
- 2013, Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering
- Zoophiles, or 'zoos,' are sexually and emotionally attracted to animals, as in a sexual orientation.
- 2016, Jessica Pierce, Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets (page 129)
- Bestiality or zoophilia—whatever we decide to call it—is one of the most pressing issues for all domesticated animals, […] From the scanty research available, the following picture emerges: the majority of zoos are male, though certainly not all; […]
- 2013, Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?zo.o/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?zo.u/
Noun
zoo m (plural zoos)
- Clipping of zoològic.
Further reading
- “zoo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Noun
zoo f
- zoo
Synonyms
- zoologická zahrada
Danish
Etymology
From English zoo
Noun
zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)
- a zoo, zoological garden
Synonyms
- zoologisk have
Dutch
Pronunciation
- (Belgium) IPA(key): /zo?/
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /zu?/, /zo?/
- Hyphenation: zoo
- Rhymes: -o?
Etymology 1
Probably a borrowing from French zoo. Equivalent to a shortening of zoölogische tuin.
Noun
zoo m (plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)
- (chiefly Belgium) zoo
Synonyms
- dierentuin, diergaarde
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adverb
zoo
- Archaic spelling of zo.
Esperanto
Etymology
Clipping of zoologia ?ardeno.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?zoo/
- Hyphenation: zo?o
- Rhymes: -oo
Noun
zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)
- zoo
Synonyms
- besto?ardeno
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zo/, /zo.o/
Noun
zoo m (plural zoos)
- zoo
Related terms
- zoologique
Further reading
- “zoo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?z?.o/
Noun
zoo m (invariable)
- zoo
Related terms
- giardino zoologico
Malay
Etymology
From English zoo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zu/
- Rhymes: -zu, -u
Noun
zoo
- zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)
Synonyms
- kebun binatang
- taman haiwan
Polish
Etymology
From English zoo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?z??/
Noun
zoo n (indeclinable)
- (zoology) zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)
- Synonym: ogród zoologiczny
Further reading
- zoo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- zoo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- zôo (superseded)
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?zo.u/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?zo.u/, /?zow/
- Rhymes: -o.u
Noun
zoo m (plural zoos)
- Clipping of zoológico.
Verb
zoo
- first-person singular (eu) present indicative of zoar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /??oo/, [??o.o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /?soo/, [?so.o]
Noun
zoo m (plural zoos)
- zoo
Related terms
- zoológico
Further reading
- “zoo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su?/
- Homophone: so
Noun
zoo n
- zoo
Declension
Related terms
- zoo-
References
- zoo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
White Hmong
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-?r??H (“good”). Cognate with Iu Mien longx.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????/
Adjective
zoo
- good
Derived terms
- mus zoo
- nyob zoo
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary?[2], SEAP Publications, ?ISBN.
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lioness
English
Etymology
lion +? -ess.
Noun
lioness (plural lionesses, masculine lion)
- A female lion (animal).
- Synonym: (idiomatic) queen of beasts
- A female lion (famous person regarded with interest and curiosity).
- 1877, The Contemporary Review (volume 29, page 1123)
- The stories were a tremendous success; she was one of the leading lionesses of London literary society.
- 1877, The Contemporary Review (volume 29, page 1123)
- (Britain, obsolete, Oxford University slang) A female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.
- 1871, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Annals of Oxford (page 305)
- When "lionesses" visiting Oxford for the gay doings of commemoration week spend a morning at Merton, they should look out for Antony Wood's mural tablet in the chapel, […]
- 1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford (page 271)
- "Now, boys, keep your eyes open, there must be plenty of lionesses about;" and thus warned, the whole load, including the cornopean player, were on the look-out for lady visitors, profanely called lionesses, all the way up the street.
- 1871, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Annals of Oxford (page 305)
Translations
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- Elisons, esloins, insoles, lesions, selions
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