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MEANING OF ANIMAL IN ENGLISH

animal
noun [ C ]

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/ˈæn.ɪ.məl/ us

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/ˈæn.ɪ.məl/


ANIMAL NOUN [C] (CREATURE)

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A1
something that lives and moves but is not a human, bird, fish, or insect:
wild/domestic animals
Both children are real animal lovers.
Surveys show that animal welfare has recently become a major concern for many
schoolchildren.
B2
anything that lives and moves, including people, birds, etc.:
Humans, insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals are all animals.
More examplesFewer examples
 * The panda is becoming an increasingly rare animal.
 * The farmer was accused of cruelty to animals.
 * Some animals hunt at night.
 * These remote islands are inhabited only by birds and small animals.
 * Personally , I don't think animals should be killed for their fur.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Plants & animals - general words
 * animal kingdom
 * anti-parasitic
 * autotroph
 * biota
 * biped
 * epiphytically
 * esculent
 * family
 * fauna
 * flora
 * mammalian
 * migrant
 * natively
 * non-mammalian
 * non-placental
 * rodent
 * ruminant
 * scavenger
 * secondary consumer
 * songster

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ANIMAL NOUN [C] (BAD PERSON)

informal
an unpleasant, cruel person or someone who behaves badly:
He's a real animal when he's had too much to drink.


ANIMAL NOUN [C] (TYPE)

used to describe what type of person or thing someone or something is:
At heart she is a political animal.
She is that rare animal (= she is very unusual), a brilliant scientist who can
communicate her ideas to ordinary people.
Feminism in France and England are rather different animals (= are different).
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Categories and varieties
 * bad/big boy idiom
 * breed
 * categoric
 * categorical
 * category
 * classification
 * derivative
 * form
 * hue
 * mark
 * misclassification
 * model
 * mould
 * new breed
 * polymorphism
 * run
 * shade
 * sort
 * stratification
 * update

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animal
adjective

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/ˈæn.ɪ.məl/ us

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/ˈæn.ɪ.məl/


ANIMAL ADJECTIVE (FROM ANIMALS)

made or obtained from an animal or animals:
animal products
animal fat/skins
relating to, or taking the form of, an animal or animals rather than a plant or
human being:
The island was devoid of all animal life (= there were no animals on the
island).
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Plants & animals - general words
 * animal kingdom
 * anti-parasitic
 * autotroph
 * biota
 * biped
 * epiphytically
 * esculent
 * family
 * fauna
 * flora
 * mammalian
 * migrant
 * natively
 * non-mammalian
 * non-placental
 * rodent
 * ruminant
 * scavenger
 * secondary consumer
 * songster

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ANIMAL ADJECTIVE (PHYSICAL)

[ before noun ]
relating to physical desires or needs, and not spiritual or mental ones:
As an actor, he has a sort of animal magnetism.
She knew that Dave wasn't the right man for her but she couldn't deny the animal
attraction between them.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The body
 * -bodied
 * anatomy
 * axial
 * biodynamics
 * biomechanics
 * corporeality
 * ectomorphic
 * endomorph
 * endomorphic
 * figure
 * frame
 * hyperphysical
 * internally
 * physical
 * physically
 * somatically
 * somatotype
 * somite
 * venter
 * ventrally

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(Definition of animal from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary &
Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)


ANIMAL | AMERICAN DICTIONARY

animal
noun [ C ]

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/ˈæn·ə·məl/


ANIMAL NOUN [C] (LIVING THING)

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a living thing that can move and eat and react to the world through its senses,
esp. of sight and hearing:
Mammals, insects, reptiles, and birds are all animals.
In ordinary use, animal means all living beings except humans:
A lion is a wild animal, and a dog is a domestic animal.
Tests of the drug were done on laboratory animals.
An animal is also a person who likes something or does something more than most
people do:
a party animal
He’s the most political animal on the city council.


ANIMAL NOUN [C] (GROUP)

[ U ]   biology us

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/ˈæn·ə·məl/
one of five kingdoms (= groups) into which living things are divided, the
members of which have many cells, have the ability to control their own
movement, and get their energy from eating rather than from the light of the sun

animal
adjective [ not gradable ]

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/ˈæn·ə·məl/


ANIMAL ADJECTIVE [NOT GRADABLE] (PHYSICAL)

relating to physical needs or desires, such as to eat or reproduce:
Animal instincts apply to all animals, including humans.

(Definition of animal from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge
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TRANSLATIONS OF ANIMAL

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生物, （除人、鳥、魚和昆蟲之外的）動物, 獸…
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生物, （除人、鸟、鱼和昆虫之外的）动物, 兽…
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（人間・鳥類・魚・昆虫以外の）動物, けもの, （人間・鳥、等を含む）動物…
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প্রাণী, পশু, এমন কিছু যা বেঁচে আছে এবং চলাফেরা করে…
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    * Noun 
       * animal (CREATURE)
       * animal (BAD PERSON)
       * animal (TYPE)
   
    * Adjective 
       * animal (FROM ANIMALS)
       * animal (PHYSICAL)

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    * Noun 
       * animal (LIVING THING)
       * animal (GROUP)
   
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       * animal (PHYSICAL)

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