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# zoo

noun (zoo, zoos)

«zoo» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A zoo is a place where wild animals are kept so that people can see them and learn about them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#m1)
2. Good zoos help rare animals by breeding them and keeping them safe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#m2)
3. In speech, «a zoo» means a very busy, noisy place: «The classroom was a zoo». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#m3)

### In the lessons

In school maths: a setting; animals and visitors at the zoo are counted, tickets to the zoo are bought (tickets × price), animals' food per day. In science: animals, habitats, endangered species, keepers who feed and care for them. In everyday life: school trips to the zoo, a petting zoo with farm animals. Phrases: «at the zoo», «a trip to the zoo», «petting zoo», «zookeeper».

### Examples

- The zoo has 12 lions and 8 tigers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x1)
- 240 people visited the zoo on Monday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x2)
- A ticket to the zoo costs $9. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x3)
- How many animals are in the zoo? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x4)
- We saw the penguins being fed at the zoo. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x5)
- Zoos help to protect animals that are in danger. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x6)
- Please don't feed the animals at the zoo. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x7)
- The house was a zoo with five children and two dogs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x8)
- So when the largest elephant in the Zoo was carried off by a dragon, the papers gave up pretending--and put ALARMING PLAGUE OF DRAGONS at the top of the paper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x9)

### Note

Countable: «a zoo». Short for «zoological garden». Maths: a word of the story; it carries no clue for the operation. The numbers belong to the animals, visitors or tickets. Trap: adults' and children's tickets may cost different amounts.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «zoo» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«zoo» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/zoo.html) on Mova free.