Definitions of limbo [ˈlɪm boʊ]

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) limbo
(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.

2.  limbo
a place or state of oblivion for persons or things cast aside, forgotten, or out of date.

3.  limbo
an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.

4.  limbo
a place or state of imprisonment or confinement.

5. (n.) limbo
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.

Etymology: (1955–60; cf. Jamaican E limba to bend; see limber¹)

Definition of 'limbo'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) oblivion, limbo
the state of being disregarded or forgotten

2. (noun) limbo
an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

3. (noun) limbo
(theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)

Definition of 'limbo'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) limbo
alt. of Limbus

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