Definitions for jungle
ˈdʒʌŋ gəljun·gle

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. junglenoun

   a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival

2. hobo camp, junglenoun

   a place where hoboes camp

3. junglenoun

   an impenetrable equatorial forest

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1. Junglenoun

   Hence: (Fig.) A place of danger or ruthless competition for survival. /'bdIt's a jungle out there./'b8

   Etymology: [Hind. jangal desert, forest, jungle; Skr. jagala desert.]

2. Junglenoun

   Anything which causes confusion or difficulty due to intricacy; as, a jungle of environmental regulations. MW10.

   Etymology: [Hind. jangal desert, forest, jungle; Skr. jagala desert.]

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1. junglenoun

   A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals.

   Etymology: 1776, via जंगल and جنگل, from .

2. junglenoun

   A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.

   It's a jungle out there.

   Etymology: 1776, via जंगल and جنگل, from .

3. junglenoun

   An area where hobos camp together.

   Etymology: 1776, via जंगल and جنگل, from .

4. junglenoun

   A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.

   Etymology: 1776, via जंगल and جنگل, from .

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Junglenoun

   a dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil

   Etymology: [Hind. jangal desert, forest, jungle; Skr. jagala desert.]

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1. Jungle

   A jungle is land covered with dense vegetation. Application of the term has varied greatly during the last several centuries, both because of this ambiguity in the application of the term and its use in popular culture. Jungles in European and Western literature, often represent a less civilised or unruly space outside the control of civilisation because of its association in colonial discourse with places that were colonised by Europeans.

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1. Jungle

   jung′gl, n. land covered with thick brushwood, &c.—ns. Jungle-fē′ver, a severe malarial or remittent fever; Jung′le-fowl, a wild species of genus Gallus, the parent of our barn-door fowl.—adj. Jung′ly. [Sans. jañgala, desert.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. jungle

   A wilderness of wood; in Bengal the word is also applied to a tract covered with long grass, which grows to an extraordinary height. Jungles are dreaded for the fevers they engender.

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1. jungle

   The Jungle (aka Lawrence Heights} is located in the Downsview section of Toronto, Canada. There are many theories where this name came from including its geographical make up, the vast forestry surrounding the area to its reputation as a high crime area with a violent history. It is also rumoured that it was nicknamed after a notorious neighbourhood within Kingston Jamaica, where a lot of its residents were from.

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'jungle' in Nouns Frequency: #2900

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of jungle in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of jungle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of jungle in a Sentence

1. Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92):

   Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

2. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

3. Peter De Vries:

   Life is a zoo in a jungle.

4. Bashar Alaeddin:

   I felt as a photographer to progress in my career, to fulfill my ambitions, I had to work on a very long-term documentary project, i'd heard of these stories in National Geographic; some guy lived in the jungle for seven years or he spent time with African elephants for five years. I wanted something long term.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   Someone who is probably a rural worker in the woods, in the forest, in the jungle gets bit by a mosquito who is infected with yellow fever but likely got it from a monkey, so it goes from animal to human, but it doesn't get into the population of Aedes aegypti, which are very frequent in the big cities like Rio de Janeiro.

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