What does jungle mean?
Definitions for jungle
ˈdʒʌŋ gəljun·gle
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word jungle.
Princeton's WordNet
junglenoun
a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
hobo camp, junglenoun
a place where hoboes camp
junglenoun
an impenetrable equatorial forest
GCIDE
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.]
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.]
Wiktionary
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 .
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 .
junglenoun
An area where hobos camp together.
Etymology: 1776, via जंगल and جنگل, from .
junglenoun
A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
Etymology: 1776, via जंगल and جنگل, from .
Webster Dictionary
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.]
Freebase
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.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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
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.
Rap Dictionary
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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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'jungle' in Nouns Frequency: #2900
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of jungle in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of jungle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of jungle in a Sentence
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.
Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
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.
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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Translations for jungle
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- أدغالArabic
- জঙ্গলBengali
- junglaCatalan, Valencian
- džungleCzech
- jungleDanish
- Dschungel, UrwaldGerman
- ζούγκλαGreek
- ĝangaloEsperanto
- jungla, selvaSpanish
- جنگلPersian
- viidakko, jungleFinnish
- jungle, forêt vierge, forêt tropicaleFrench
- ceol dufaire, dufairIrish
- xunglaGalician
- જંગલGujarati
- ג'ונגלHebrew
- जंगलHindi
- dzsungelHungarian
- ջունգլիArmenian
- frumskógurIcelandic
- giunglaItalian
- 密林, ジャングルJapanese
- ჯუნგლიGeorgian
- ಕಾಡುKannada
- waokuMāori
- जंगलMarathi
- hutan rimba, jenggala, rimbaMalay
- जङ्गलNepali
- jungle, oerwoudDutch
- jungelNorwegian
- hodíłchʼilNavajo, Navaho
- dżunglaPolish
- jângal, floresta, selvaPortuguese
- junglăRomanian
- джунглиRussian
- जङ्गलSanskrit
- džungla, џунглаSerbo-Croatian
- džúnglaSlovene
- djungelSwedish
- mwituniSwahili
- காட்டில், ஜங்கிள்Tamil
- అడవిTelugu
- جنگلUrdu
- 丛林Chinese
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