jungle
A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with…A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest.
» Wild animals live in the jungle.
Wilde Tiere leben im Dschungel.
Im Dschungel leben wilde Tiere.
Дикие животные живут в джунглях.
Дикие звери живут в джунглях.
Meaning
8 senses(countable, uncountable)A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest.
Urwald, Dschungel
джу́нглиdžúngli
джу́нгліdžúnhli
(Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, countable, uncountable)Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
(colloquial, countable, uncountable)A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
It’s a jungle out there.
a place where hoboes camp
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A tangled mess.
(countable, slang, uncountable)An area where hobos camp together.
(uncountable)A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
(countable, slang, uncountable)Dense rough.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A dense mass of pubic hair.
Examples
226 sentencesWild animals live in the jungle.
ruДикие животные живут в джунглях.
deWilde Tiere leben im Dschungel.
Tom got lost in the jungle.
Don't go into the jungle alone.
We'll get through the jungle somehow.
deWir werden schon irgendwie durch den Dschungel kommen.
We chopped our way through the jungle.
deWir bahnten uns einen Weg durch den Dschungel.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal) / Urdu جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal)), from Sauraseni PraBorrowed from Hindustani (Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal) / Urdu جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal)), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀚𑀁𑀕𑀮 (jaṃgala), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid or sterile region, desert”), from a substrate language. First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.
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Forms
plural: junglesSynonyms
2 synonyms- a place where hoboes camp:hobo camp
Word family
46 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable