zombie

See also Zombie

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Bantu. Compare Kikongo zumbi (fetish), Kimbundu nzambi (god), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (a spirit or demon). May also be related to sombra.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈzɒmbi/

Hyphenation: zom‧bie

Noun

zombie (plural zombies)

1. A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
2. (voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
3. (fiction, horror) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.

   I shot a zombie. He was a zombie, Kenneth. The pilot was bitten before he picked us up!

4. (figuratively) An apathetic person.
5. (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.

   After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.

6. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
7. (computing) A process or task which has terminated but was not removed from the list of processes, typically because it has child processes that have not yet terminated.
8. (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
9. A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
   • 1976, Harvard Advocate CX:ii, pages 8⁽¹⁾ and 380⁽²⁾

     ⁽¹⁾ The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie with him. Those zombies are wicked.

     ⁽²⁾ I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.

10. (Canada, historical, derogatory) Nickname for a conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
    • 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,

      Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?

11. (philosophy) A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.

Synonyms

• (person that is undead): living dead, ghoul
• (information worker): intellectual prostitute

Derived terms

Terms derived from "zombie"

antizombie zombic zombically zombielike zombify/zombification (business): zombie bank zombie S&L zombie institution zombie company zombie business zombie organization (philosophy): zombie hypothesis zombie world zombie thought experiment (social science): zombie effect zombie walk

(computing): zombie network zombie process zombie client zombie system zombie program zombie computer zombie state zombie version zombie host zombie path zombie user zombie software (dance): zombie dance (cinema): zombie film zombie genre

Translations

the undead

• Arabic: زومبي (ar) (zuumbi) m
• Armenian: զոմբի (hy) (zombi)
• Basque: zonbi
• Catalan: zombi (ca) m and f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 僵屍 (cmn) or 殭屍 (cmn), 僵尸 (cmn) (jiāngshī), 喪屍 (cmn), 丧尸 (cmn) (sàngshī)

• Czech: zombie (cs) f
• Danish: zombie (da) c
• Dutch: zombie (nl)
• Esperanto: zombio (eo), sorĉkadavro (eo)
• Finnish: zombi (fi), zombie (fi)
• French: zombi (fr), zombie (fr)
• German: Zombie (de) m
• Greek: ζόμπι (el) (zómpi) n (zómbi)
• Hebrew: זומבי (he)

• Hindi: ज़ोंबी (hi) (zombī)
• Hungarian: zombi (hu)
• Icelandic: uppvakningur (is) m
• Italian: zombi (it)
• Japanese: ゾンビ (ja) (zonbi)
• Korean: 좀비 (ko) (jombi)
• Lithuanian: zombis (lt) m
• Marathi: जॉम्बी (mr) (zǒmbī)
• Polish: zombi (pl) m
• Portuguese: zumbi (pt)
• Romanian: zombi (ro) m
• Russian: зомби (ru) (zómbi) m (indeclinable)
• Spanish: zombi (es) m and f, zombie (es) m and f
• Swedish: zombie (sv) c
• Thai: ซอมบี้ (th) (sombī̂)
• Turkish: zombi (tr)
• Welsh: sombi (cy) m
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Esperanto

Adverb

zombie

1. in the manner of a zombie, zombically

Related terms

• zombia (“related to zombie(s), zombic”)
• zombiigi (“zombify”)
• zombio (“zombie”)

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Finnish

Noun

zombie

1. Alternative form of zombi.

Declension

Declension of zombie (type valtio) singular plural nominative zombie zombiet genitive zombien zombieiden zombieitten partitive zombieta zombieita accusative zombie zombien zombiet inessive zombiessa zombieissa elative zombiesta zombieista illative zombieen zombieihin adessive zombiella zombieilla ablative zombielta zombieilta allative zombielle zombieille essive zombiena zombieina translative zombieksi zombieiksi instructive – zombiein abessive zombietta zombieitta comitative – zombieineen

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French

Adjective

zombie

1. feminine form of zombi

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Italian

Noun

zombie m and f (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of zombi.

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Swedish

Noun

zombie c

1. zombie

Declension

Declension of zombie

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	zombie	zombien	zombier	zombierna
genitive	zombies	zombiens	zombiers	zombiernas