Definition of JUNGLE

jungle

Meanings

Plural: jungles

Noun

  • a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
  • a place where hoboes camp
  • an impenetrable equatorial forest
  • A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
  • Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
  • A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
  • A tangled mess.
  • An area where hobos camp together.
  • A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
  • Dense rough.
  • A dense mass of pubic hair.

Adj

  • resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.

Synonyms

hobo camp, tiger country

Scrabble Score: 14

jungle is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
jungle is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
jungle is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 20

jungle is a valid Words With Friends word