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Zombi

Definition: Zombi

Zombi

Noun

1. (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body.

2. A god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies.

3. A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force.

4. Someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed".

5. Several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Zombi

Synonyms: automaton (n), snake god (n), the living dead (n), zombi spirit (n), zombie (n), zombie spirit (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Zombi

Non-English Usage: "Zombi" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (zombie), German (zombi, zombie), Serbo-Croatian (zombie), Spanish (zombie), Turkish (zombi, zombie).

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Modern Usage: Zombi

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Zombi de Cap-Rouge (1997)

Zombi 1 (1995)

Ili zhizn' posle bitv Igraem zombi (1993)

Curse of the Zombi (1989)

Zombi 3 (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Zombi

DomainTitle

Books

  • Capitan Mutanda Contro I Malefi Zombi Babbei (reference)

  • Le phénomène zombi : la présence en Haïti de sujets en état de non-être (reference)

  • The Zombi (reference)

  • To Catch a Zombi (reference)

  • Voyage en Haïti : sur la piste du zombi (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Zombi

"Zombi" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Zombi" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Zombi

Expression using "zombi": zombi spirit. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Zombi

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

zombi

36

rob zombi

17

zombi 2

5

white zombi

3

concombre zombi

2

zombi 3

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Zombi

Language Translations for "zombi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏زومبي الأفعى المؤلهة في الديانة الودونية. (various references)

   

German

  

Zombi (zombie). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

orang bebal (dunce, zombie). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ombizay

   

Turkish

  

zombi (zombie). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Zombi

Derivations

Words beginning with "zombi": zombie, zombielike, zombies, zombification, zombifications, zombified, zombifies, zombify, zombifying, zombiism, zombiisms, zombis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Zombi

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-m-o-z"

-2 letters: bio, biz, mib, mob, obi.

-3 letters: bi, bo, mi, mo, om.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-m-o-z"
 

+1 letter: zombie, zombis.

 

+2 letters: bromize, zombies, zombify.

 

+3 letters: bromized, bromizes, mobilize, zombiism.

 

+4 letters: bombazine, bromizing, mobilized, mobilizes, rhizobium, symbolize, zombified, zombifies, zombiisms.

 

+5 letters: bombazines, demobilize, immobilize, lobotomize, metabolize, mobilizing, remobilize, symbolized, symbolizer, symbolizes, zombielike, zombifying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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