zoo

Clipping of zoological garden, and now the usual form. See also zoology.

• IPA^(key): /zuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː

zoo (plural zoos)

1. A park where live animals are exhibited.
   • 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.

2. (figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.

   The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.

3. (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.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.o/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.u/

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of zoològic.
   • 2016 November 9, “Midnight Cowboy”, in El Periódico‎:

     O sigui, els sorolls del zoo de demòcrates i republicans.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• “zoo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

zoo f

1. zoo

• zoologická zahrada

From English zoo

zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)

1. a zoo, zoological garden

• zoologisk have

zoo m (plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)

1. zoo

• dierentuin, diergaarde

zoo

1. Archaic spelling of zo.

Clipping of zoologia ĝardeno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzoo/
• Hyphenation: zo‧o
• Rhymes: -oo

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zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)

1. zoo

• IPA^(key): /zo/, /zo.o/

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zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

• zoologique

• “zoo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdzɔ.o/

zoo m (invariable)

1. zoo

• giardino zoologico

From English zoo.

• IPA^(key): /zu/
• Rhymes: -zu, -u

zoo

1. zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)

• kebun binatang
• taman haiwan

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔ.ʔɔ/

zoo n (indeclinable)

1. zoo

• ogród zoologiczny

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of zoológico.

zoo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of zoar

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈθo/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈso/

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

• zoológico

• “zoo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

zoo

1. good

• mus zoo
• nyob zoo