zoo – English noun declension

English noun forms of zoo

Noun: zoo
Singularzoo
Pluralzoos

Sample Sentences

  • The London Zoo was built in 1828.
  • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity. [2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects as chefs put bugs back on the menu”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023, page 32:]
  • The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.
  • After his insightful book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Spoto published The Dark Side of Genius, a portrayal of the elderly director as a lonely man who was a veritable zoo of desires, suspicions, fears, and addictions (food, drink, romantic infatuation, and filmmaking). [1993, Neil P. Hurley, Soul in Suspense: Hitchcock's Fright and Delight, page xii:]
  • From this point on, an entire zoo of possibilities arose: strange stars, different families of neutron stars, hybrid stars, etc. [2001, Antonino Zichichi, Theory and Experiment Heading for New Physics:]
  • But powerful as the quark model and the electroweak theory were in describing the zoo of subatomic particles, this still left a huge gap. [2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:]
  • I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides. [2013 August 12, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, “My Vietnam War”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN, page 152:]
  • Zoophiles, or 'zoos,' are sexually and emotionally attracted to animals, as in a sexual orientation. [2013, Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering:]
  • Bestiality or zoophilia—whatever we decide to call it—is one of the most pressing issues for all domesticated animals, […] From the scanty research available, the following picture emerges: the majority of zoos are male, though certainly not all; […] [2016, Jessica Pierce, Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets, page 129:]

Etymology

1. Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology.
2. * Sense 5 is a clipping of zoophile or zoophilia.

Verbs referencing "zoo"

Irish Nouns zú, Zulu Nouns izu.