jungle

B2 · Upper Intermediate Countable noun Informal

n. a place where people are very competitive and do not follow rules or care about others.

n. a place or situation characterized by ruthless competition, struggle for survival, or a lack of moral constraints.

“The business world can be a jungle where only the strongest companies survive.”

“In the cutthroat world of high-frequency trading, many young professionals find the office environment to be a literal jungle.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Countable noun

n. a messy or complicated group of things that are hard to separate.

n. a confused or tangled mass of objects or ideas.

“There was a jungle of computer cables behind his desk that took hours to untangle.”

“The garden had become a jungle of weeds and overgrown vines after years of neglect by the previous owners.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Music Technical

n. a type of fast electronic dance music with heavy drums and bass.

n. a style of electronic dance music characterized by very fast breakbeats and heavy basslines, originating in the early 1990s.

“The club played old-school jungle music all night long.”

“The producer's early tracks were instrumental in defining the jungle sound before the genre evolved into modern drum and bass.”