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taboo | tabor |

As a noun taboo

is an inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

As an adjective taboo

is excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

As a verb taboo

is to mark as taboo.

As a proper noun tabor is

(city in the czech republic).

taboo

English

(wikipedia taboo)

Alternative forms

* tabu

Noun

(en noun)
  • An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
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  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 213:
    • The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus .
  • (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
    • Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
  • Culturally forbidden.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark as taboo.
  • To ban.
  • To avoid.

    • Anagrams

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    tabor

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tabour.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small drum. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a sound) with a tabor.
  • To strike lightly and frequently.

    • Etymology 2

    From various Slavic languages, from Turkish.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
  • * 2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 269:
    • A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.

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