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taboo

English

  1. 🔊 forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands
  2. 🔊 excluded from use or mention
    “forbidden fruit”
  3. 🔊 an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
  4. 🔊 a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
  5. 🔊 declare as sacred and forbidden

Spanish

  1. 🔊 tabĂș taboo

Similar words

tabu tabu forbidden out(p) prohibited proscribed tabu verboten tabu eighteenth amendment prohibition party volstead act anathema ban banned bar bar out barred barring blockade boycott censorable censored circumscription