English-Thai Dictionary

zombie

N คนโง่ (คำ ไม่เป็นทางการ  คนที่ ไม่มีชีวิตชีวา และ ขาด ความสามารถ ใจ การ คิด ด้วย ตนเอง  kon-ngo

 

zombie

N ซากศพ ที่ ถูก ทำให้ มีชีวิต ขึ้นมา อีก ครั้ง  ghost vampire sak-sob-ti-tam-hai-me-che-wid-kuan-ma-eak-krang

 

zombie

N อำนาจเหนือธรรมชาติ ที่ ทำให้ ศพ กลับมา มีชีวิต อีก ครั้ง  am-nad-nuan-tam-ma-chad-ti-tam-hai-kab-ma-me-che-wid-wak-krang

 

zombie

N เทพเจ้า งู ใน แอฟริกา ตะวันตก และ หมู่เกาะ แถบ อินเดีย ตะวันตก  อำนาจเหนือธรรมชาติ ที่ ทำให้ ศพ กลายเป็น สิ่งมีชีวิต ได้  teab-pa-jao-ngu-nai-aef-fri-ka-ta-wan-tok

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

zombie

zom bie |ˈzämbē ˈzɑmbi | ▶noun 1 a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, esp. in certain African and Caribbean religions. • informal a person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings. • a computer controlled by another person without the owner's knowledge and used for sending spam or other illegal or illicit activities. 2 a tall mixed drink consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice. DERIVATIVES zom bie like |-ˌlīk |adjective ORIGIN early 19th cent.: of West African origin; compare with Kikongo zumbi ‘fetish. ’ word trends: Zombies are everywhere —on movie screens, in books, and even invading our computers and banks. The Oxford English Corpus shows steadily increasing outbreaks of the undead over the last decade. Zombies have been a mainstay of horror films and popular culture since The Night of the Living Dead in 1968, but in the last few years some new forms of zombie have escaped from fiction into reality. First, there were the computers taken over by hackers and used to perform malicious tasks: a virus used to turn PCs into spam zombies. Then came zombie banks, insolvent institutions kept functioning only by government support. This use exploded in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007 –09, with twenty times more examples in Corpus data for 2009 than for 2008.

 

zombie bank

zom bie bank ▶noun informal a financial institution that is insolvent but that continues to operate through government support. word trends: See zombie .

 

Oxford Dictionary

zombie

zom ¦bie |ˈzɒmbi | ▶noun 1 a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions. • informal a person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings. • a computer controlled by another person without the owner's knowledge and used for sending spam or other illegal or illicit activities. 2 a cocktail consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice. DERIVATIVES zombielike adjective ORIGIN early 19th cent.: of West African origin; compare with Kikongo zumbi ‘fetish ’. word trends: Zombies are everywhere —on cinema screens, in books, and even invading our computers and banks. The Oxford English Corpus shows steadily increasing outbreaks of the undead over the last decade. Zombies have been a mainstay of horror films and popular culture since The Night of the Living Dead in 1968, but in the last few years some new forms of zombie have escaped from fiction into reality. First, there were the computers taken over by hackers and used to perform malicious tasks: a virus used to turn PCs into spam zombies. Then came zombie banks, insolvent institutions only kept functioning by government support. This use exploded in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 –9, with twenty times more examples in Corpus data for 2009 than for 2008.

 

zombie bank

zom bie bank ▶noun informal a financial institution that is insolvent but that continues to operate through government support. word trends: See zombie .

 

zombie bank

zombie bank ▶noun informal a financial institution which is insolvent but which continues to operate through government support.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

zombie

zombie noun why is he walking around like a zombie? living dead, undead, walking dead, soulless corpse.

 

Duden Dictionary

Zombie

Zom bie Substantiv, maskulin , der |Z o mbie |der Zombie; Genitiv: des Zombie [s ], Plural: die Zombies englisch zombi (e ), westafrikanisch Wort 1 (im Wodukult ) wiederbelebter Toter 2 (in Horrorfilmen o. Ä.) Toter, der ein willenloses Werkzeug dessen ist, der ihn zum Leben erweckt hat figurativ mit diesen Zombies (umgangssprachlich ; inaktiven, unselbstständigen Menschen ) kann ich nicht arbeiten

 

Spanish Dictionary

zombie

zombie zombi .