Definitions for limboˈlɪm boʊ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
lim•boˈlɪm boʊ(n.)(pl.)-bos.
(often cap.) a region on the border of hell or heaven in Roman Catholic teaching, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ.
Category: Religion
a place or state of oblivion for persons or things cast aside, forgotten, or out of date.
an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.
a place or state of imprisonment or confinement.
Origin of limbo:
1300–50; ME < ML in limbō on hell's border (L: on the edge) =in on +limbō, abl. of limbus edge, border; cf. limbus
lim•boˈlɪm boʊ(n.)(pl.)-bos.
a dance from the West Indies in which the dancer bends backward from the knees and moves with a shuffling step under a horizontal bar that is lowered after each successive pass.
Category: Music and Dance
Origin of limbo:
1955–60; cf. Jamaican E limba to bend; see limber1
Princeton's WordNet
oblivion, limbo(noun)
the state of being disregarded or forgotten
limbo(noun)
an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
limbo(noun)
(theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)
Webster Dictionary
Limbo(noun)
alt. of Limbus
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