Definizione monolingua

taboo

taboo (third-person singular simple present taboos, present participle tabooing, simple past and past participle tabooed)

1. To mark as taboo.
2. To ban.
3. To avoid.

taboo (plural taboos)

1. An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
   • 1922, James Frazer, The Golden Bough:

     So among the Alfoors of the island of Buru it is taboo to mention the names of parents and parents-in-law, or even to speak of common objects by words which resemble these names in sound.

   • 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.

2. (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

taboo (comparative more taboo, superlative most taboo)

1. Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

   Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.

Definizione dizionario taboo

	tabù
	An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

proibito

proibizione

vietato

Altri significati:

mark as taboo

To ban.

Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention

avoid

To mark as taboo.

(in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

inhibition or ban

ban

To avoid.

in Polynesia: something which may not be used