jungle

Pluraljungles

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   tropical forestnouncountable or uncountable

   A big, wild, wet forest, often in a hot part of the world, where many plants and animals live.

   Monkeys swung from tree to tree in the jungle.

   They walked for days through thick jungle to reach the river.

   UsageSay in the jungle, or through thick jungle.

   Similarrainforest, forest

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2. 2
   lawless placenouncolloquialcountable or uncountable

   A place where people are hard and cruel to each other and ignore the law and what is right.

   The job market is a jungle where everyone looks out for themselves.

   Life on those streets was a jungle where only the toughest survived.

   UsagePeople say it's a jungle out there to mean life is hard and unfair.

   Similarfree-for-all, battleground

3. 3
   nounSouth Asiacountable or uncountable

   Any wild land with trees or bushes that no one farms.

   The goats feed in the dry jungle on the hill, where no one has ever planted anything.

   Past the last field, the land turns to dry jungle full of thorny scrub.

   Similarscrub, bush, scrubland

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4. 4
   nounfigurativelycountable or uncountable

   A messy mix of things that are all tangled together.

   Behind the TV was a jungle of wires.

   I got lost in a jungle of forms at the tax office.

   UsageSay a jungle of wires.

   Similarmaze, tangle, labyrinth, mess, web

5. 5
   dance musicnoununcountable

   A kind of electronic dance music that led to the style called drum and bass.

   He plays jungle on his radio show every Friday night.

   My older brother still loves the jungle he danced to as a teenager.

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