zoo
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Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology.
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zoo (plural zoos)
- A park where live animals are exhibited.
- The London Zoo was built in 1828.
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
- (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
- The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.
- (informal, figuratively) A large and varied collection of something.
- 1993, Neil P. Hurley, Soul in Suspense: Hitchcock's Fright and Delight, page xii:
- After his insightful book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Spoto published The Dark Side of Genius, a portrayal of the elderly director as a lonely man who was a veritable zoo of desires, suspicions, fears, and addictions (food, drink, romantic infatuation, and filmmaking).
- 2001, Antonino Zichichi, Theory and Experiment Heading for New Physics:
- From this point on, an entire zoo of possibilities arose: strange stars, different families of neutron stars, hybrid stars, etc.
- 2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:
- But powerful as the quark model and the electroweak theory were in describing the zoo of subatomic particles, this still left a huge gap.
- (US, military, slang) The jungle.
- 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)
- I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.
- 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)
- (slang) A zoophile.
- 2013, Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering:
- Zoophiles, or 'zoos,' are sexually and emotionally attracted to animals, as in a sexual orientation.
- 2016, Jessica Pierce, Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets, page 129:
- Bestiality or zoophilia—whatever we decide to call it—is one of the most pressing issues for all domesticated animals, […] From the scanty research available, the following picture emerges: the majority of zoos are male, though certainly not all; […]
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zoo m (plural zoos)
- Clipping of zoològic.
- 2016 November 9, “'Midnight Cowboy'”, in El Periódico[1]:
- O sigui, els sorolls del zoo de demòcrates i republicans.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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- “zoo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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zoo f or n
- zoo
- Synonym: zoologická zahrada
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Normally indeclinable. When neuter, can be declined as follows, although it is dated:
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zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)
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Probably a borrowing from French zoo. Equivalent to a shortening of zoölogische tuin.
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zoo m (plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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zoo
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zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)
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zoo m (plural zoos)
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- “zoo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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zoo
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zoo m (invariable)
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zoo (Jawi spelling زو, plural zoo-zoo, informal 1st possessive zooku, 2nd possessive zoomu, 3rd possessive zoonya)
- zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)
- 2013 February 13, “Gorilla lahirkan anak di zoo Moscow [Gorilla gives birth to offspring at Moscow Zoo]”, in Astro Awani[2]:
- Jurucakap zoo, Elena Mendosa memberitahu pembiakan gorilla di Zoo Moscow merupakan sesuatu yang unik dan berharap proses berkenaan akan berterusan.
- A zoo spokeswoman, Elena Mendosa said that gorilla breeding at the Moscow Zoo is something unique and hoped the process would continue.
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Unadapted borrowing from English zoo.
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- IPA(key): /ˈzɔ.ɔ/, (colloquial) /zɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔɔ, -ɔ
- Syllabification: zo‧o
- Syllabification: zoo
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zoo n (indeclinable)
- (zoology) nature preserve, zoo, zoological garden, zoological park
- Synonyms: ogród zoologiczny, zoolog, zwierzyniec
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zoo m (plural zoos)
- Clipping of jardim zoológico.
- Synonym: (Brazil) zoológico
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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- Rhymes: -ou
- Hyphenation: zo‧o
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zoo
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zoo n (uncountable)
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- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθoo/ [ˈθo.o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsoo/ [ˈso.o]
- Rhymes: -oo
- Syllabification: zo‧o
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zoo m (plural zoos)
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- “zoo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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zoo n
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Nominative | zoo | zooet | zoon | zoona |
Genitive | zoos | zooets | zoons | zoonas |
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From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-ʔrɔŋH (“good”), possibly borrowed from Old Chinese 良 (*raŋ, “good”).[1] Cognate with Iu Mien longx.
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zoo
- Alternative form of zo
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:
- Zoo wough aul vell a-danceen; earch bye gae a poage
- So we all fell a-dancing; each boy gave a kiss
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:
- Zoo wough kisth, an wough parthet; earch man took his laave;
- So we kissed and we parted, each man took his leave;
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:
- Zoo wough aul returnth hime, contented an gaay,
- So we all returned home, contented and gay,
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- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 82