junglejun‧gle /ˈdʒʌŋɡəl/ ●●○ noun 
Word Origin
the Amazon jungle► see thesaurus at forest2[singular] a situation in which it is difficult to become successful or get what you want, especially because a lot of people are competing with each other: the media jungle3[singular] something that is very untidy, complicated, or confusingjungle of a jungle of freeways and highways4[uncountable] a type of very fast dance music → concrete jungle, → law of the jungle at law(8)
Word OriginWORD ORIGINjungle
ExamplesOrigin:
1700-1800 Hindi jangal ‘forest’, from Sanskrit jangalaEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- I don't see New York as some awful jungle.
THESAURUS► forest
Collocations a very large area of land with a lot of trees growing closely together: · In 1500, most of the country was forest.· the Black Forest in Germany
► woods (also wood British English) an area of land covered with a lot of trees, that is smaller than a forest: · Behind the house were the woods that we used to play in.· Follow the path through a small wood.
► woodland an area of land that is covered with trees – used especially for describing the type of land in an area: · The site covers 74 acres of beautiful ancient woodland.
► rainforest a thick forest with tall trees, in tropical parts of the world that have a lot of rain: · Tropical rainforests are home to over half of the planet’s plant and animal species.· the Indonesian rainforest
► jungle an area of tropical forest where trees and large plants grow very closely together: · the jungles of Borneo· The palace was hidden for centuries in Guatemala’s dense jungle.
► grove a small group of trees, or an area of land planted with a particular type of fruit tree: · The temple was built in the centre of a small grove of trees.· the olive groves of southern Spain
► copse a small area of trees or bushes growing closely together: · At the top of the field was a copse full of rabbits.
► plantation a large area of trees planted for their wood, fruit etc: · a rubber plantation
► thicket a small group of bushes, plants, or small trees growing closely together: · Tall bamboo thickets fringed the narrow river.
areas of trees► copse noun [countable] a small group of trees: · a small copse of fir trees
► woodland noun [uncountable] land covered with trees: · the maintenance of ancient woodland· woodland areas
► wood noun [countable] (also woods) a large area with many trees: · We went for a walk in the woods.
► forest noun [countable, uncountable] a very large area with a lot of trees growing closely together: · pine forests· They worked as tree planters in the forests of Washington State.· The forest fire was started by a discarded cigarette.
► rainforest noun [countable, uncountable] a tropical forest with tall trees, in an area where it rains a lot: · the Amazon rainforest· 12 million acres of rainforest have been destroyed.
► jungle noun [countable, uncountable] a tropical forest with trees and large plants: · The wreckage of the plane was found in dense jungle.· a remote jungle area
WORD SETS► Forestryafforestation, noundeforestation, nounfir, nounfirebreak, nounforested, adjectiveforester, noungrove, noungum, nounhardwood, nounjungle, nounlog, verblogger, nounlogging, nounlogjam, nounlumber, verblumber, nounlumberjack, nounlumberman, nounlumbermill, nounlumberyard, nounpine, nounplantation, nounreforestation, nounsapling, nounspruce, nounwoodcutter, nounwoodsman, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► dense forest/wood/woodland/jungle
Phrases· Their helicopter could not land because of the dense jungle.
► jungle warfare· The Japanese had been trained in jungle warfare.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► concrete· Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is, well, a concrete jungle really.
► deep· It's also necessary to feign surprise when you notice that global culture falls like rain into deepest jungle or wildest steppe.· In Chiapas, a few thousand Lacandons live by choice in the deepest jungle.· At the fishing village of Barra del Tordo, most of the deep jungle that once lined the Carrizales River is gone.
► dense· Army helicopters could not land because of the mountainous terrain and dense jungle.· The lake grows fish as prolifically as its bed once grew the trees of a dense jungle.· For two days we travelled through dense alien jungle.· The tiger gained its stripes by evolving in dense jungle and wet, reedy areas.· The lakes are certainly there but they are hidden in dense jungle, only accessible by a network of sandy tracks.
► tropical· Around the coast and in river valleys there are stretches of tropical jungle with pythons and other snakes.· The general effect was of a tropical jungle, made somehow rich and sinfully luxurious.
NOUN► drum· The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum.· Either she could hear jungle drums or the beating of her own heart.· Obviously the jungle drums had been busy after my first visit.· The jungle drums were beating again.
► gym· Agile border jumpers sometimes climbed over the gates of unattended booths as if they were jungle gyms, officials said.· He turned to me and nodded gravely, and five minutes later he was hanging from the jungle gym beside another boy.· The place looked like a jungle gym.
► warfare· Now the guides' training in jungle warfare came into its own.· For jungle warfare, Charlie had much better weapons: the AK47.
VERB► live· They wore camouflage uniform and, from the looks of them, had been living long in the jungle.· Yumbu and Minko are a black boy and a black girl who live in this jungle village.· But they lived in jungles, Tarzan and Mowgli.· Marcia had lived in the jungle for nine years.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the law of the jungle
1[countable, uncountable] a thick tropical forest with many large plants growing very close together: - But it is better than the law of the jungle, where might equals right.
the Amazon jungle► see thesaurus at forest2[singular] a situation in which it is difficult to become successful or get what you want, especially because a lot of people are competing with each other: the media jungle3[singular] something that is very untidy, complicated, or confusingjungle of a jungle of freeways and highways4[uncountable] a type of very fast dance music → concrete jungle, → law of the jungle at law(8)