Definitions for limbo

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limbo lim·bo

Spelling: [lim-boh]

IPA: /ˈlɪm boʊ/

Limbo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in limbo (bilmo).

Definitions for limbo

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
2. a place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date:
3. an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.
4. a place or state of imprisonment or confinement.
5. a dance from the West Indies, originally for men only, in which the dancer bends backward from the knees and moves with a shuffling step under a horizontal bar that is lowered after each successive pass.

Origin of limbo

1300-50; Middle English, from Medieval Latin phrase in limbō on hell's border (Latin: on the edge), equivalent to in on + limbō, ablative of limbus edge, border (L), place bordering on hell (

Examples for limbo

“This is a very difficult period right now—being in limbo,” he admits.

The button of soot has vanished into the limbo of superseded inventions.

Duncan's hand airily wafted the remark into the limbo of the negligible.

Would that film, also starring an early 2000s Best Actress Oscar winner, have been in limbo this long?

Keeping him in limbo seems to be the preferred punishment for him in the eyes of the Iranian authorities.

But we forget that our hero, like Tristram Shandy, is still in the limbo of non-existence.

Even though her life remains in limbo she counts herself as fortunate.

As to leave, it has again vanished into the limbo of futurity.

Alas, that is not possible, for it must remain forever in the limbo of tradition.

For now, an impasse holds Ukraine in a limbo punctuated by violent outbursts.