Taboo

Definition of taboo:

part of speech: adjective

Set apart or sacred by religious custom; prohibited by social custom.

part of speech: verb

To forbid approach or allusion to.

part of speech: participle

Tabooing.

part of speech: noun

A religious interdict among the Polynesians; prohibition.

part of speech: verb

To forbid approach to, or use of.

part of speech: noun

A religious system or practice, in use among certain savage races, by which certain acts and things were made sacred and forbidden; ban.

part of speech: participle

Tabooed.

Usage examples for taboo:

• Of this there was a great variety, and the following are specimens:- 1. The sea- pike taboo "Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before", George Turner.

• Now I go 'way, taboo he go 'way too. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25)", Robert Louis Stevenson Other: Andrew Lang.

• In the week that followed she walked out with him across the causeway into the mountain road, visiting Szolnok farm and climbing the hills adjacent to the castle, but she saw no one except the German farmers, and it seemed indeed as though the gorge was taboo to all human beings. "The Secret Witness", George Gibbs.