Definitions for jungle

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jungle jun·gle

Spelling: [juhng-guh l]

IPA: /ˈdʒʌŋ gəl/

Jungle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in jungle (egjlnu).

Definitions for jungle

noun

1. a wild land overgrown with dense vegetation, often nearly impenetrable, especially tropical vegetation or a tropical rain forest.
2. a tract of such land.
3. a wilderness of dense overgrowth; a piece of swampy, thickset forestland.
4. any confused mass or agglomeration of objects; jumble:
5. something that baffles or perplexes; maze:
6. a scene of violence and struggle for survival:
7. a place or situation of ruthless competition:
8. Slang. a hobo camp.
9. a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.

Origin of jungle

1770-80; Hindi jaṅgal Pali, Prakrit jaṅgala rough, waterless place

Examples for jungle

Now, visitors are scarce and the jungle is taking over, leaving some locals nostalgic.

Over the past week, Sony Pictures Entertainment has received more body blows than Muhammad Ali during the Rumble in the jungle.

"I'd like to know how I'm going to get back through this jungle after dark," Charlie said.

And you have watched over me alone in the jungle for two days?

Certainly I can imagine ways of giving this jungle hero some up-to-date progressive attitudes.

"Number One has escaped into the jungle, Professor," he said.

There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a jungle, close about the door.

Bibi was pregnant, and Louise delivered her baby, a boy named Christian, the same day in the jungle.

A Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it.

The day was sultry, and the heat, even in the dense shade of the jungle, oppressive.