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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lim•bo1 /ˈlɪmboʊ/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable], pl. -bos. - Religion[proper noun* often: Limbo] a region on the border of hell or heaven in Roman Catholic teaching, serving as the place after death of unbaptized infants and of righteous people who died before the coming of Christ.
- a place or state that is intermediate, transitional, or uncertain:Negotiations were in limbo again, neither side wishing to compromise.
See -lim-.lim•bo2 /ˈlɪmboʊ/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -bos. - Music and Dancea dance from the West Indies in which the dancer bends backward from the knees and moves with a shuffling step under a horizontal bar that is lowered after each pass.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lim•bo1 (lim′bō),USA pronunciation n., pl. -bos. - (often cap.) [Rom. Cath. Theol.]a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (lim′bo of in′fants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (lim′bo of the fa′thers or lim′bo of the pa′triarchs.)
- a place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date:My youthful hopes are in the limbo of lost dreams.
- an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.
- a place or state of imprisonment or confinement.
- 1300–50; Middle English, from Medieval Latin phrase in limbō on hell's border (Latin: on the edge), equivalent. to in on + limbō, ablative of limbus edge, border (Latin), place bordering on hell (Medieval Latin); see limbus1
- Music and Dancea dance from the West Indies, originally for men only, in which the dancer bends backward from the knees and moves with a shuffling step under a horizontal bar that is lowered after each successive pass.
- 1955–60; compare Jamaican English limba to bend, easily bending; see limber1
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: limbo /ˈlɪmbəʊ/ n ( pl -bos)- (often capital) the supposed abode of infants dying without baptism and the just who died before Christ
- an imaginary place for lost, forgotten, or unwanted persons or things
- an unknown intermediate place or condition between two extremes: in limbo
Etymology: 14th Century: from Medieval Latin in limbo on the border (of hell) limbo /ˈlɪmbəʊ/ n ( pl -bos)- a Caribbean dance in which dancers pass, while leaning backwards, under a bar
Etymology: 20th Century: origin uncertain |