- a place where wild animals are kept for public showing
- a collection of wild animals
- Slang a place, or the people in that place, variously regarded as lacking order, discipline, refinement, etc.
Origin of zoo
from zoo(logical garden)
A father and son at the zoo.
- The zoo is a place where animals are kept so that people may come and see them.
The San Diego Zoo is a famous example of a zoo.
- The definition of a zoo is defined as a place that is hectic and lacking order.
An elementary school playground is an example of a zoo.
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zoo
zoo-
- animal, animals: zoology
- zoology and: zoogeography
Origin of zoo-
Classical Greek z?o- from z?on, z?ion, an animal: see bio-Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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zoo
noun
pl. zoos- A park or an institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public. Also called zoological garden .
- Slang A place or situation marked by confusion or disorder: The bus station is a zoo on Fridays.
Origin of zoo
Short for zoological gardenzoo-
or zo-
prefix
- Animal; animal kingdom: zoography.
- Motile: zoospore.
Origin of zoo-
Greek zōo-, zōio- from zōion living being ; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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zoo - Computer Definition
A freeware compression program, including source code, used in Unix, DOS and other environments.
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Sentence Examples
- I don't know where we'll find a place to do our thing; this joint is like a zoo with honking horns and either back-fires or gunshots!
- A point is reached about zoo m.
- Here some remains of Cyclopean masonry exist; but the area enclosed, about zoo yds.
- The line was to be constructed in sections of zoo kilometres (125 m.) each, and as the complete plans and drawings of each were presented at the times and in the order specified in the convention, the government was to deliver to the concessionnaires government securities representing the capitalization of the annuity accruing to that section.
- We were both inmates in his zoo in Hell long enough to know how charming he was.
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