English Online Dictionary. What means zoo? What does zoo mean?
Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology. Senses 5 and 6: clipping of zoophile or zoophilia.
- IPA(key): /zuː/
- Rhymes: -uː
zoo (plural zoos)
- A park where live animals are exhibited.
- (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
- (informal, figuratively) A large and varied collection of something.
- (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.
- (slang, uncountable) Pornographic material depicting actual animals or bestiality.
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈzo.u]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈzo.o]
zoo m (plural zoos)
- Clipping of zoològic.
- “zoo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- IPA(key): [ˈzoo]
zoo f or n
- zoo
- Synonym: zoologická zahrada
Normally indeclinable. When neuter, can be declined as follows, although it is dated:
- zoo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- zoo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- zoo in Internetová jazyková příručka
From English zoo.
zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)
- a zoo, zoological garden
- zoologisk have
- (Belgium) IPA(key): /zoː/
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /zuː/, /zoː/
- Hyphenation: zoo
- Rhymes: -oː
Probably a borrowing from French zoo. Equivalent to a shortening of zoölogische tuin.
zoo m (plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)
- (chiefly Belgium) zoo
- dierentuin, diergaarde
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
zoo
- Archaic spelling of zo.
Clipping of zoologia ĝardeno.
- IPA(key): [ˈzoo]
- Rhymes: -oo
- Hyphenation: zo‧o
zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)
- (zoology) zoo
- bestoĝardeno
- IPA(key): /zo/, /zo.o/
zoo m (plural zoos)
- zoo
- zoologique
- “zoo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
zoo
- first-person singular present indicative of zoar
- IPA(key): */ˈd͡zɔ.o/
- Rhymes: -ɔo
- Hyphenation: zò‧o
- (especially Rome) IPA(key): */ˈd͡zɔ/*
- Rhymes: -ɔ
zoo m (invariable)
- zoo
- giardino zoologico
From English zoo.
- IPA(key): /zu/
- Rhymes: -zu, -u
zoo (Jawi spelling زو, plural zoo-zoo, informal 1st possessive zooku, 2nd possessive zoomu, 3rd possessive zoonya)
- zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)
- kebun binatang
- taman haiwan
Unadapted borrowing from English zoo.
- IPA(key): /ˈzɔ.ɔ/, (colloquial) /zɔ/
- Rhymes: -ɔɔ, -ɔ
- Syllabification: zo‧o
- Syllabification: zoo
zoo n (indeclinable)
- (zoology) nature preserve, zoo, zoological garden, zoological park
- Synonyms: ogród zoologiczny, zoolog, zwierzyniec
- zoo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zoo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- zôo (Brazil, superseded)
- Rhymes: -u, -ou
zoo m (plural zoos)
- Clipping of jardim zoológico.
- Synonym: (Brazil) zoológico
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
- Rhymes: -ou
- Hyphenation: zo‧o
zoo
- first-person singular present indicative of zoar
Borrowed from French zoo.
zoo n (uncountable)
- zoo
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθoo/ [ˈθo.o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsoo/ [ˈso.o]
- Rhymes: -oo
- Syllabification: zo‧o
zoo m (plural zoos)
- zoo
- “zoo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- IPA(key): /suː/
- Homophone: so
zoo n
- zoo
- zoo-
- zoo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-ʔrɔŋH (“good”), possibly borrowed from Old Chinese 良 (*raŋ, “good”). Cognate with Iu Mien longx.
- IPA(key): /ʐɒ̃˧/
zoo
- good, fair, fine, well
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
zoo
- Alternative form of zo
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 82