TABOO
\tabˈuː], \tabˈuː], \t_a_b_ˈuː]\
Definitions of TABOO
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
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forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands
By Princeton University
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an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
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forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.
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To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
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A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, - an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
By Oddity Software
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Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.
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To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
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A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, - an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
By Noah Webster.
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Any negative tradition or behavior that is generally regarded as harmful to social welfare and forbidden within a cultural or social group.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A religious system or practice, in use among certain savage races, by which certain acts and things were made sacred and forbidden; ban.
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To forbid approach to, or use of.
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Set apart or sacred by religious custom; prohibited by social custom.
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Tabooed.
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Tabooing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To forbid; exclude.
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A Polynesian custom, whereby things are set apart as sacred or forbidden to be used.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Prohibition or interdict by religious consecration or the reverse, of great force among the Polynesians.
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To forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach or use.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
