JUNGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jungle mean? 

• JUNGLE (noun)
  The noun JUNGLE has 3 senses:

1. a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival

2. a place where hoboes camp

3. an impenetrable equatorial forest

  Familiarity information: JUNGLE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUNGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("jungle" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jungle"):

concrete jungle (an area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A place where hoboes camp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

hobo camp; jungle

Hypernyms ("jungle" is a kind of...):

camp (a group of people living together in a camp)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An impenetrable equatorial forest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("jungle" is a kind of...):

forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)

Derivation:

jungly (overgrown with tropical vegetation)

 Context examples 

What is there? he would cry, pointing to the north. Wood and marsh and unpenetrated jungle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The jungle and the wilderness lurked in the uplift and downput of his feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The thief or the murderer could roam London on such a day as the tiger does the jungle, unseen until he pounces, and then evident only to his victim.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he sprang upon the guard one day and used his teeth on the other's throat just like any jungle animal.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Far from being an empty void, the space around Earth is a jungle of invisible fields and tiny particles.

(FIREBIRD II and NASA Mission Locate Whistling Space Electrons’ Origins, NASA)

"Now it is no longer necessary to cut through the jungle to see what's under it," said Canuto.

(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)

He has had dreadful strokes of the sun, no doubt, and jungle fevers and agues, and every kind of thing you can mention.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Wolf! Wolf! Here Wolf!" she called, as they left the clearing and took the trail that led down through the waxen-belled manzanita jungle to the county road.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

University of Arizona scientists trekked across the Americas: from moist, tropical jungles of Panama to the frigid boreal forests of Colorado to the wet temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest.

(From tropical to boreal ecosystems, temperature drives functioning, National Science Foundation)

For three days I lived off guavas, ohia-apples, and bananas, all of which grew wild in the jungle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)