zoo
A park where live animals are exhibited.
Example
“The London Zoo was built in 1828.”
Other meanings
Pornographic material depicting actual animals or bestiality.
Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
“The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.”
A kind of
- facility
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “zoo” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.