Definitions for jungle
ˈdʒʌŋ gəljun·gle

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

1. jungle(noun)

   a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival

2. hobo camp, jungle(noun)

   a place where hoboes camp

3. jungle(noun)

   an impenetrable equatorial forest

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1. Jungle(n.)

   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. Jungle(n.)

   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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. jungle(Noun)

   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. jungle(Noun)

   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. jungle(Noun)

   An area where hobos camp together.

   Etymology: 1776, via जंगल and جنگل, from .

4. jungle(Noun)

   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. Jungle(noun)

   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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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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1. jungle

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

How to pronounce jungle?

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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. Mayerli Katua:

   I don't want to go back. I'm afraid of the bad men (FARC guerrillas) there. I feel safer here, besides my children were born here. What do they know of the jungle?

2. Isang Smith:

   No games in the concrete jungle streets, be fully focused on cars, pedestrians and dodging piles of dog poo.

3. Anuj Somany:

   A person who doesn't get ever emotional over any official matter and always keeps first the personal profit before the organizational interest is called a PROFESSIONAL in the private sector corporate jungle and being professional has got nothing to do anything with the educational qualification.

4. Yilmaz Pasha:

   We start walking, walking through the forest, we saw deers, and a man wearing some strange clothes and in his hand was a hammer. We were nervous, it's such a big jungle, it will be so dangerous for us.

5. Desmond Morris:

   The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

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