taboo

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

   “It is true indeed that a taboo - in order to be a proper taboo - must not rest in the general mind on argument or reason.”

2. isim Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
3. sıfat Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

   “Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.”

4. sıfat Culturally forbidden.
5. fiil To mark as taboo.
6. fiil To ban or prohibit.

   “They lunched, but if the subject of Carrados had been tabooed the meal would have been a silent one.”

7. fiil To avoid.