zoo
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- noun
- /zuː/
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zoológico
- We took a family outing to the zoo to watch the feeding of the giraffes.
- zoo animals
- petting zoos
- zoo visitors
The San Diego Zoo no longer has giant pandas.
- The San Diego Zoo no longer has giant pandas.
- Yeah, my ex, my ex actually took me to the zoo for my birthday.
- That was not a, you know, a public zoo or government funded sanctuary.
- Can it lead that characteristic form of life in a zoo and under what zoo conditions?
- We lock them in zoos, they live in the forest, we are their masters.
- The overhyped thing about the zoo was the zoo the best zoo in the world.
Examples
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Grants from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Earthwatch, and the Denver Zoo supported additional studies.
Academic text (2012) -
Last year, more Americans visited zoos than all professional baseball and football games combined.
Fiction book (1990) -
James, it's your first time going to the zoo, dude, are you excited?
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Can we go to the zoo, Brian?
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Your sister worked at the zoo?
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And then in breaking news, the Arizona Zoo has been broken into.
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No doubt about it, the white tigers at the Cincinnati Zoo are beautiful animals.
Academic text (1992) -
The San Diego Zoo no longer has giant pandas.
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Let's go to the San Diego Zoo and look in all the cages.
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I didn't know it, but there's a zoo in the middle of Paris.
Synonyms
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A group of wild animals kept for people to see
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A park where wild animals live in natural areas so people can see them
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A park where visitors drive through to see wild animals
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A place where people go to see live wild animals
Compounds
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2.8
A place where people can touch and feed gentle animals like rabbits and goats for fun and learning
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Etymology
Zoo comes from the Greek root zo- meaning 'animal' and is a short form of zoological garden, with the same root as zoology. So a zoo is a place where live wild animals are kept for people to see.