jungle
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
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.
Inflected forms:
form: jungles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jangal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: jangal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As Tarzan walked down the wild cañon beneath the brilliant African moon the call of the jungle was strong upon him. The solitude and the savage freedom filled his heart with life and buoyancy. Again he was Tarzan of the Apes—every sense alert against the chance of surprise by some jungle enemy—yet treading lightly and with head erect, in proud consciousness of his might.
gloss: Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
countable
uncountable
gloss: A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: It’s a jungle out there.
'How do you like this corner of the jungle?' He leant forward. 'Just listen in to the couple behind you. From what I've heard they're straight out of "Nigger Heaven".'
The first-timer just doesn't know what's going on when he gets to jail. […] It's a jungle, you've got to look after yourself first.
But of course, that excludes the narcissistic delusionals, the deliberate frauds, and the pathological cases of multiple personality. They are all out there in New Age Land, and it's a jungle!
gloss: A tangled mess.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
gloss: An area where hobos camp together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media.
In large part, happycore was the result of an exodus of white ravers from the jungle scene, in reaction to the influx of black youth and the attendant mood change from bonhomie to surliness.
gloss: Dense rough.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Hitting from the Jungle. The rough at some courses is just weeds and sparse grass, as often as not giving a player a decent lie to shoot from. But grass above four inches is nasty. It will grab your club and alter your shots.
gloss: A dense mass of pubic hair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: She gave her first performance at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, offering festival dances, Moro tribal rituals, primitive jungle rhythms and rice harvest ceremonials.
Somewhere further up the valley a bunch of hippies were getting back to nature by loading up on mind altering chemicals and overwhelming their senses with five million decibels of digital bass and jungle beats.
Derived words: asphalt jungle
beat like a jungle drum
blackboard jungle
concrete jungle
dark jungle glory
hobo jungle
it's a jungle out there
jungle babbler
jungle bear
jungle bendy
jungle boot
jungle bunny
jungle cat
jungle cock
jungle crow
jungle curry
jungled
jungle drums
jungle fever
jungle fowl
junglefowl
jungle glory
jungle green
jungle gym
jungle hen
jungle juice
jungle justice
jungleless
junglelike
jungle mouth
jungle nymph
jungle primary
jungler
jungle raj
jungle rice
jungle rot
jungleside
jungle telegraph
junglewear
junglewood
junglism
junglist
jungly
jungular
King of the Jungle
law of the jungle
Meinong's jungle
nonjungle
rubber jungle
smoky jungle frog
underjungle
vajungle
you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey
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