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jungle
[ juhng-guhl ]
noun
- a wild land overgrown with dense vegetation, often nearly impenetrable, especially tropical vegetation or a tropical rainforest.
- a tract of such land.
- a wilderness of dense overgrowth; a piece of swampy, thickset forestland.
- any confused mass or agglomeration of objects; jumble:
a jungle of wrecked automobiles.
- something that baffles or perplexes; maze:
a jungle of legal double-talk.
- a scene of violence and struggle for survival:
The neglected prison was a jungle for its inmates.
- a place or situation of ruthless competition:
the advertising jungle.
- Slang.
- (in historical use) a hobo camp:
We found him by the campfire, with many similarly raggedy hobos in what is known as a jungle.
- any camp of unhoused individuals:
Law enforcement clears the jungle and tears down the temporary structures a few times each year, but people return and a new encampment always springs up.
jungle
/ ˈ»åÏôʌŋɡə±ô /
noun
- an equatorial forest area with luxuriant vegetation, often almost impenetrable
- any dense or tangled thicket or growth
- a place of intense competition or ruthless struggle for survival
the concrete jungle
- a type of fast electronic dance music, originating in the early 1990s, which combines elements of techno and ragga
- slang.(esp in the Depression) a gathering place for the unemployed, etc
Derived Forms
- ˈÂá³Ü²Ô²µ±ô²â, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- Âá³Ü²Ô·²µ±ô±ð»å adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·»å±ð°ù·Âá³Ü²Ô·²µ±ô±ð noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of jungle1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of jungle1
Idioms and Phrases
see law of the jungle .Example Sentences
His feed included images from the treacherous Darien Gap, the dense jungle separating Colombia and Panama.
The mixture known as Agent Orange is a combination of two herbicides that the U.S. brought to Vietnam in huge volumes to kill off jungles and mangroves that hid opposition forces during the Vietnam war.
They are now one of the top nationalities crossing the dangerous Darien Gap jungle from South to North America.
“I was sitting there in the jungle with every bug, snake and crocodile, thinking there had to be a better way to make a living. That’s when I started thinking: urban jungle.â€
Army company in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970, as a group of men trek across the jungle, land in firefights and use downtime to josh and fight over God, country, race and more.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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