zoo

a facility with usually indoor and outdoor settings where living, typically wild animals are kept especially for public exhibition.

The first known use: in 1835

Word Structure

3 Letters, 1 Syllable

zoo

2 Phonemes

z U

onset, rime

z oo

Morpheme

zoo

Sentence Examples

The sixth grade classroom was a zoo after recess.

The supermarket was a real zoo on the night before the storm.

Common Phrases

from goo to you, by way of the zoo

it's a zoo

it's feeding time at the zoo

what a zoo

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