jungle
Meaning
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- A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
- Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
- A tangled mess.
- (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
- A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- (slang) Dense rough.
- (slang) A hairy vulva.
Synonyms
thick forest
hobo camp
grassy place
dense forest
the woods
tropical rain forest
clump of bushes
close thicket
the bush
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
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.
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