Jungle

Quick meaning: Jungle is a noun meaning A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.

Meaning

A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.

More Meanings

1. (South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
2. (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
3. (figurative) A tangled mess.
4. (music, uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
5. (golf slang) Dense rough.
6. (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
7. (vulgar slang) A dense mass of pubic hair.

Example Sentences

It’s a jungle out there.

[…] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]

The first-timer just doesn't know what's going on when he gets to jail. […] It's a jungle, you've got to look after yourself first.

'How do you like this corner of the jungle?' He leant forward. 'Just listen in to the couple behind you. From what I've heard they're straight out of "Nigger Heaven".'

Word Forms

• jungles

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rainforest, forest, selva, forestry, thicket, woodland.

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