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# zombie

«zombie» in Mova's school dictionary: **a made-up dead person who has come back to life and walks…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a zombie, zombies); adjective (zombie — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In stories, films and games, a zombie is a made-up dead person who has come back to life and walks around slowly without thinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zombie/#m1)

2) (informal) A zombie is a person who is very tired or not paying attention and moves without thinking: I'm a zombie in the mornings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zombie/#m2)

3) (informal) Zombie can describe something that keeps going although it is useless or should have ended: a zombie company. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zombie/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In children's stories, games and Halloween costumes, zombies are a spooky monster; they are not real. In everyday talk, «like a zombie» means half-asleep. In safety and media lessons, zombies are fiction, not fact. Phrases: like a zombie, zombie film, zombie mode.

### examples

- My brother dressed up as a zombie for Halloween. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zombie/#x1)
- Zombies are not real; they are made up for stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zombie/#x2)
- I'm a total zombie until I've had breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zombie/#x3)
- The zombies in the game move very slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zombie/#x4)
- After the sleepover we walked around like zombies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zombie/#x5)
- The film was about a town full of zombies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zombie/#x6)

### note

Plural: zombies (not zombys). Zombies are fictional — a myth, not real creatures. Sometimes spelled «zombi». Related spooky words: ghost, mummy, vampire.

### In the corpora

- [They finally drop off at three and spend Sunday as grumpy zombies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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