zoo
/zuː/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The London Zoo was built in 1828."
- "The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity."
- "The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas."
- "After his insightful book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Spoto published The Dark Side of Genius, a portrayal of the elderly director as a lonely man who was a veritable zoo of desires, suspicions, fears, and addictions (food, drink, romantic infatuation, and filmmaking)."
- "From this point on, an entire zoo of possibilities arose: strange stars, different families of neutron stars, hybrid stars, etc."
- "But powerful as the quark model and the electroweak theory were in describing the zoo of subatomic particles, this still left a huge gap."
Etymology
Usage
- Countable
- Informal
- American usage
- Slang
- Uncountable
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Places, Zoology.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
goo to you by way of the zoo
human zoo
like feeding time at the zoo
morning zoo
particle zoo
petting zoo
safari zoo
who's who in the zoo