zombie
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
First attested in 1871. From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”). Origin from Spanish sombra (“shadow, phantom”) has also been suggested. May have come through Louisiana Creole [Term?]. See also French zombi (1832).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈzɒmbi/
- (General American) enPR: zŏmʹbē, IPA(key): /ˈzɑmbi/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒmbi
- Hyphenation: zom‧bie
Noun edit
zombie (plural zombies)
- (voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
- Synonyms: deadhead, ghoul, living dead, walker, (slang) walking dead, zed
- 1943, Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, I Walked with a Zombie (motion picture):
- Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink.
- 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
- The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf-Man, Dracula, and his son.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: SSV Normandy:
- Ashley: Dad passed on a few years back. He's probably still watching, though.
Shepard: He's not a zombie, is he?
- 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- The zombies first show up 20 minutes in, after Melanie volunteers herself as the next child to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. That’s when we learn that Melanie and her classmates are all “hungries,” or people infected with a toxic fungus that turns them into mindless flesh-eating animals.
- (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person. [1936]
- (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.[1]
- Synonym: intellectual prostitute
- (computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.[2]
- 1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
- 9. The process executed the exit system call and is in the zombie state. The process no longer exists, but it leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent process to collect. The zombie state is the final state of a process.
- 1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
- (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
- A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
- 1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “Haitian Divorce”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan:
- She takes the taxi to the good hotel / Bon marché as far as she can tell / She drinks the zombie from the cocoa shell
- 1976, Harvard Advocate CX:ii, pages 8 and 380:
- The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie with him. Those zombies are wicked.
- […]
- I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
- (Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.[3]
- 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
- Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
- 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
- (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- 1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert (lyrics and music), “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work:
- Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
- (philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
- Synonyms: p-zombie, philosophical zombie
Derived terms edit
- antizombie
- dezombification
- dezombify
- phone zombie
- smartphone zombie
- xanbie
- zimbo
- zombic
- zombically
- zombie apocalypse
- zombie bank
- zombie banker
- zombie box
- zombie business
- zombie car
- zombie cell
- zombie client
- zombie company
- zombie computer
- zombie dance
- zombie debt
- zombie debtor
- zombie deer disease
- zombie effect
- zombie fire
- zombie fungus
- zombie host
- zombie hypothesis
- zombie institution
- zombie knife
- zombieless
- zombie lie
- zombielike
- zombieness
- zombie network
- zombie organization
- zombie out
- zombie path
- zombiephile
- zombiephilia
- zombie process
- zombie program
- zombie S&L
- zombie software
- zombie star
- zombie state
- zombie statistic
- zombie strip
- zombie system
- zombie tag
- zombie taxon
- zombie theory
- zombie thought experiment
- zombie urbanism
- zombie user
- zombie version
- zombie walk
- zombie world
- zombie worm
- zombification
- zombify
- zomboid
- zombyish
Translations edit
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References edit
- ^ EE Times, "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
- ^ Maurice J. Bach The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, 1986. See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
- ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zombie m anim or f or n
Declension edit
when masculine:
when feminine:
when neuter:
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zombie m (plural zombies, diminutive zombietje n)
Derived terms edit
Finnish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zombie
- Alternative form of zombi.
Declension edit
Inflection of zombie (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | zombie | zombiet | ||
genitive | zombien | zombieiden zombieitten | ||
partitive | zombieta | zombieita | ||
illative | zombieen | zombieihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | zombie | zombiet | ||
accusative | nom. | zombie | zombiet | |
gen. | zombien | |||
genitive | zombien | zombieiden zombieitten | ||
partitive | zombieta | zombieita | ||
inessive | zombiessa | zombieissa | ||
elative | zombiesta | zombieista | ||
illative | zombieen | zombieihin | ||
adessive | zombiella | zombieilla | ||
ablative | zombielta | zombieilta | ||
allative | zombielle | zombieille | ||
essive | zombiena | zombieina | ||
translative | zombieksi | zombieiksi | ||
abessive | zombietta | zombieitta | ||
instructive | — | zombiein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
- compounds
- zombie-tähti (“zombie star”)
Further reading edit
- “zombie”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
zombie
References edit
- “zombie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zombie m or f by sense (invariable)
- Alternative spelling of zombi
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From a Bantu language, via English zombie.
Noun edit
zombie m (definite singular zombien, indefinite plural zombier, definite plural zombiene)
- a zombie
See also edit
- zombi (Nynorsk) (although the spelling "zombie" is apparently also used)
References edit
- “zombie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Polish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English zombie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zombie m animal (indeclinable)
- (voodoo) zombie (person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of their own)
- (fiction) zombie (deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living)
- zombie film
- (computing) zombie (computer affected by malware)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English zombie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zombie m or f by sense (plural zombies)
- zombie (the undead)
- Synonyms: morto-vivo, (Brazil) zumbi
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately, from a Bantu language.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zombie m anim (genitive singular zombieho, nominative plural zombieovia, genitive plural zombieov, declension pattern of kuli)
Usage notes edit
May also be indeclineable.
Declension edit
References edit
- “zombie”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish edit
Noun edit
zombie m (plural zombies)
- Alternative spelling of zombi
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zombie c
Declension edit
Declension of zombie | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | zombie | zombien | zombies, zombier | zombierna, zombiesarna |
Genitive | zombies | zombiens | zombies, zombiers | zombiernas, zombiersarnas |