- [uncountable, countable] an area of tropical forest where trees and plants grow very thickly
- The area was covered in dense jungle.
- the jungles of South-East Asia
- jungle warfare
- (figurative) Our garden is a complete jungle.
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyb1- a temple deep in the Brazilian jungle
- the lush jungles of the Yucatán Peninsula
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dense
- impenetrable
- thick
- …
- canopy
- warfare
- gym
- …
- in jungle
- through jungle
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- [singular] a dangerous or unfriendly place or situation, especially one where it is very difficult to be successful or to trust anyone
- It's a jungle out there—you've got to be strong to succeed.
- (also jungle music)[uncountable] a type of electronic dance music developed in the UK in the early 1990s, which has a fast drum beat and a strong slower bass beatTopics Musicc2
Word Originlate 18th cent.: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala ‘rough and arid (terrain)’.
Idioms
See jungle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe law of the jungle
- a situation in which people are prepared to harm other people in order to succeed
- These criminal gangs only recognize the law of the jungle.
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