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# taboo

«taboo» in Mova's school dictionary: **a rule of a group that says something must not be done…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (taboos); adjective; verb (taboo, taboos, tabooed, tabooing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A taboo is a rule of a group that says something must not be done, touched or said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taboo/#m1)

2) (adjective) Taboo means forbidden by such a rule. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taboo/#m2)

3) (verb) To taboo something is to forbid it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taboo/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a forbidden act, such as eating alone or going in a certain direction; in lessons a rule that is not to be broken

### examples

- It is taboo to eat alone there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taboo/#x1)
- Speaking the king's name was taboo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taboo/#x2)
- The people taboo that tree and never cut it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taboo/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «taboo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taboo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.