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BNC: 23483 COCA: 13047

zombie

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
zombie /ˈzɑːmbi/ noun
plural zombies
zombie
/ˈzɑːmbi/
noun
plural zombies
Learner's definition of ZOMBIE
[count]
informal : a person who moves very slowly and is not aware of what is happening especially because of being very tired(由于疲惫)麻木迟钝的人,呆板的人,无精打采的人
: a dead person who is able to move because of magic according to some religions and in stories, movies, etc.(一些宗教中或故事、电影中的)僵尸,行尸
BNC: 23483 COCA: 13047

zombie

noun

zom·​bie ˈzäm-bē How to pronounce zombie (audio)
variants or less commonly zombi
1
a
: a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated
b
: the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body
2
a
: a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead
especially : automaton
b
: a person markedly strange in appearance or behavior
3
: a mixed drink made of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice
zombielike adjective
or zombie-like
… a morning rush of zombielike office workers, all starved for caffeine and clamoring for cappuccino. Bob Filipczak
zomboid adjective
This is a poetry eerily populated with ghosts and mummies and zomboid creatures who go on living though dead from love. Patrick McGarth

Example Sentences

If I don't go to bed early I'll be a zombie tomorrow. His students usually sat there in the classroom like zombies.
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Word History

Etymology

Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, of Bantu origin; akin to Kimbundu nzúmbe ghost

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of zombie was in 1928
BNC: 23483 COCA: 13047

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