noun
Meaning 1
A park where live animals are exhibited.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- The London Zoo was built in 1828.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Colloquial Variant guide
zoo
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/zuː/
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noun
Meaning 2
Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, informal
Examples
- The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A large and varied collection of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The jungle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Clipping of zoophile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Clipping of zoophile.
Pornographic material depicting actual animals or bestiality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: menagerie, zoological garden
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: facility, installation
History
Etymology
Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology. * Sense 5 is a clipping of zoophile or zoophilia.
Across languages
Translations
153 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: dieretuin — park where live animals are exhibited
- Albanian: kopësht zoologjik — park where live animals are exhibited
- Amharic: መካነ አራዊት (mäkanä ʾärawit) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Arabic: حَدِيقَة الْحَيَوَان (ḥadīqat al-ḥayawānāt) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Arabic: حَدِيقَة حَيَوَان — park where live animals are exhibited
- Arabic: جنينة الحيوانات (genenet el-ḥayawanat) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܲܢܬܵܐ ܕܚܲܝܘܵܬܹ̈ܐ (gantā d-ḵaywātē) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Armenian: կենդանաբանական այգի (kendanabanakan aygi) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Armenian: գազանանոց (gazananocʻ) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Assamese: চিৰিয়াখানা (siriakhana) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Asturian: zoolóxicu — park where live animals are exhibited
- Azerbaijani: zoologiya parkı — park where live animals are exhibited
- Belarusian: заапа́рк (zaapárk) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Belarusian: заалагі́чны парк (zaalahíčny park) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Bengali: চিড়িয়াখানা (ciṛiẏakhana) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Bhojpuri: चिड़ियाघर (ciṛiyāghar) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Bulgarian: зоопа́рк (zoopárk) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Bulgarian: зоологи́ческа гради́на (zoologíčeska gradína) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Burmese: တိရစ္ဆာန်ရုံ (ti.rachcanrum) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Burmese: တိရစ္ဆာန်ဥယျာဉ် (ti.rachcan-u.yyany) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Catalan: zoològic — park where live animals are exhibited
- Cherokee: ᏧᎾᏓᎴᎸᏓᏧᏂᏙᏗ (tsunadalelvdatsunidodi) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Chinese Cantonese: 動物園 /动物园 — park where live animals are exhibited
- Chinese: есынйүан (iəsɨnyüan) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Chinese: 動物園 /动物园 (zh-min-nan) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Chinese Mandarin: 動物園 /动物园 (dòngwùyuán) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Cornish: milva — park where live animals are exhibited
- Czech: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Czech: zoologická zahrada — park where live animals are exhibited
- Danish: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Danish: zoologisk have — park where live animals are exhibited
- Central Dusun: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Dutch: dierentuin — park where live animals are exhibited
- Dutch: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Erzya: ракшапире (rakšapire) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Esperanto: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Esperanto: bestoĝardeno — park where live animals are exhibited
- Esperanto: zoologia ĝardeno — park where live animals are exhibited
- Estonian: loomaaed — park where live animals are exhibited
- Finnish: eläintarha — park where live animals are exhibited
- French: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Galician: zoolóxico — park where live animals are exhibited
- Galician: parque zoolóxico — park where live animals are exhibited
- Galician: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Georgian: ზოოპარკი (zooṗarḳi) — park where live animals are exhibited
- German: Zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- German: Tiergarten — park where live animals are exhibited
- German: Tierpark — park where live animals are exhibited
- Greek: ζωολογικός κήπος (zoologikós kípos) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Ancient Greek: θηριοτροφεῖον (thēriotropheîon) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Ancient Greek: ζωγρεῖον (zōgreîon) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Hebrew: גַּן חַיּוֹת (gan khayót) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Hebrew: גן זואולוגי (gan zo'ológi) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Hindi: चिड़ियाघर (ciṛiyāghar) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Hindi: चिड़ियाख़ाना (ciṛiyāxānā) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Hindi: पशु-वाटिका (paśu-vāṭikā) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Hindi: जीवादि वाटिका (jīvādi vāṭikā) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Hungarian: állatkert — park where live animals are exhibited
- Icelandic: dýragarður — park where live animals are exhibited
- Ido: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Ido: menajerio — park where live animals are exhibited
- Ido: animalparko — park where live animals are exhibited
- Indonesian: kebun binatang — park where live animals are exhibited
- Indonesian: bonbin — park where live animals are exhibited
- Irish: zú — park where live animals are exhibited
- Irish: gairdín ainmhithe — park where live animals are exhibited
- Italian: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Japanese: 動物園 (dōbutsuen) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Kazakh: хайуанаттар бағы (xaiuanattar bağy) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Kazakh: хайуанатхана (xaiuanatxana) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Khmer: សួនសត្វ (suən sat) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Khmer: ឧទ្យានសត្វ (ʼuttyiən sat) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Korean: 동물원 (dongmurwon) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Northern Kurdish: baxçeyê heywanan — park where live animals are exhibited
- Kyrgyz: ажайыпкана (ajayıpkana) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Kyrgyz: аң бакчасы (aŋ bakcası) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Lao: ສວນສັດ (sūan sat) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Latin: vīvārium — park where live animals are exhibited
- Latvian: zooloģiskais dārzs — park where live animals are exhibited
- Latvian: zoodārzs — park where live animals are exhibited
- Lithuanian: zoologijos sodas — park where live animals are exhibited
- Macedonian: зоолошка градина (zoološka gradina) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Malay: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Malay: kebun binatang — park where live animals are exhibited
- Malay: taman haiwan — park where live animals are exhibited
- Maltese: żu — park where live animals are exhibited
- Central Melanau: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Mongolian: амьтны хүрээлэн (amʹtny xüreelen) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Norwegian Bokmål: dyrehage — park where live animals are exhibited
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dyrehage — park where live animals are exhibited
- Odia: ଚିଡିଆଖାନ (ciḍiākhāna) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Pashto: ژوبڼ (žobaṇ) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Iranian Persian: باغِ وَحْش (bâġ-e vahš) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Plautdietsch: Tiabood — park where live animals are exhibited
- Plautdietsch: Tiagoaden — park where live animals are exhibited
- Polish: ogród zoologiczny — park where live animals are exhibited
- Polish: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Polish: zoolog — park where live animals are exhibited
- Polish: zwierzyniec — park where live animals are exhibited
- Portuguese: zoológico — park where live animals are exhibited
- Portuguese: jardim zoológico — park where live animals are exhibited
- Portuguese: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Quechua: k'ita uywap wasin — park where live animals are exhibited
- Romanian: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Romanian: parc zoologic — park where live animals are exhibited
- Romanian: grădină zoologică — park where live animals are exhibited
- Romanian: zooparc — park where live animals are exhibited
- Russian: зоопа́рк (zoopárk) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Russian: зоологи́ческий сад (zoologíčeskij sad) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Russian: зооса́д (zoosád) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Russian: звери́нец (zverínec) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Inari-Sami: elleekärdi — park where live animals are exhibited
- Serbo-Croatian: зоо̀лошкӣ вр̏т — park where live animals are exhibited
- Serbo-Croatian: зверињак — park where live animals are exhibited
- Serbo-Croatian: zoòloškī vȑt — park where live animals are exhibited
- Serbo-Croatian: zverinjak — park where live animals are exhibited
- Shan: သူၼ်သတ်း (sǔun sát) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Sikkimese: གཅན་གཟན་ཁང (gcan gzan khang) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Slovak: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Slovak: zoologická záhrada — park where live animals are exhibited
- Slovene: živalski vrt — park where live animals are exhibited
- Spanish: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Spanish: jardín zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Spanish: zoológico — park where live animals are exhibited
- Swahili: bustani ya wanyama — park where live animals are exhibited
- Swedish: zoo — park where live animals are exhibited
- Swedish: djurpark — park where live animals are exhibited
- Tagalog: hayupan — park where live animals are exhibited
- Tajik: боғи ҳайвонот (boġ-i hayvonot) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Tajik: боғи ваҳш (boġ-i vahš) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Tamil: உயிரியல் பூங்கா (uyiriyal pūṅkā) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Tamil: விலங்குக் காட்சி சாலை (vilaṅkuk kāṭci cālai) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Telugu: జంతుప్రదర్శనశాల (jantupradarśanaśāla) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Thai: สวนสัตว์ (sǔuan-sàt) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Turkish: hayvanat bahçesi — park where live animals are exhibited
- Turkmen: haýwanat bagy — park where live animals are exhibited
- Ukrainian: зоопа́рк (zoopárk) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Urdu: چِڑْیا گَھر (ciṛyā ghar) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Urdu: چِڑْیا خانَہ (ciṛyā xāna) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Uyghur: ھايۋانات باغچىسى (haywanat baghchisi) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Uzbek: hayvonot bogʻi — park where live animals are exhibited
- Uzbek: hayvonot bogʻlari — park where live animals are exhibited
- Vietnamese: thảo cầm viên — park where live animals are exhibited
- Vietnamese: sở thú — park where live animals are exhibited
- Vietnamese: vườn thú — park where live animals are exhibited
- Walloon: zô — park where live animals are exhibited
- Walloon: djårdén zolodjike — park where live animals are exhibited
- Walloon: djårdén d' aclimataedje — park where live animals are exhibited
- Welsh: sw — park where live animals are exhibited
- Welsh: milodfa — park where live animals are exhibited
- Yiddish: זאָאָגאָרטן (zoogortn) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Yiddish: זאָאָלאָגישער גאָרטן (zoologisher gortn) — park where live animals are exhibited
- Yiddish: זאָאָפּאַרק (zoopark) — park where live animals are exhibited