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noun
1.
a wild land overgrown with dense vegetation, often nearly impenetrable, especially tropical vegetation or a tropical rain forest.
2.
a tract of such land.
3.
a wilderness of dense overgrowth; a piece of swampy, thickset forestland.
4.
any confused mass or agglomeration of objects; jumble: a jungle of wrecked automobiles.
5.
EXPANDsomething that baffles or perplexes; maze: a jungle of legal double-talk.
6.
a scene of violence and struggle for survival: The neglected prison was a jungle for its inmates.
7.
a place or situation of ruthless competition: the advertising jungle.
8.
COLLAPSESlang. a hobo camp.
Origin:
1770–80; < Hindi jaṅgal < Pali, Prakrit jaṅgala rough, waterless place
1770–80; < Hindi jaṅgal < Pali, Prakrit jaṅgala rough, waterless place
Related forms
jun·gled, adjective
un·der·jun·gle, noun
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Jungle, The
noun
a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.
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jungle
1776, from Hindi jangal "desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground," from Skt. jangala-s "arid, sparsely grown with trees," of unknown origin. Specific sense of "land overgrown by vegetation in a wild, tangled mass" is first recorded 1849; meaning "place notoriously lawless and violent" is first
EXPANDrecorded 1906, from Upton Sinclair's novel (cf. asphalt jungle, 1949; blackboard jungle, 1954). Jungle gym was a trademark name, 1923, by Junglegym Inc., Chicago, U.S. Jungle bunny, derogatory for "black person," attested from 1966.
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