limbo
US: /ˈɫɪmboʊ/
UK: /lˈɪmbəʊ/
UK: /lˈɪmbəʊ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
limbo /'limbou/
- danh từ
- chốn u minh, minh phủ
- nhà tù, ngục; sự tù tội
- in limbo: bị tù
- sự quên lãng, sự bỏ quên
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [sing.] a West Indian dance in which you lean backwards and go under a bar which is made lower each time you go under it
2 [U, sing.] a situation in which you are not certain what to do next, cannot take action, etc., especially because you are waiting for sb else to make a decision: the limbo of the stateless person + His life seemed stuck in limbo; he could not go forward and he could not go back.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
in limbo. up in the air, consigned to oblivion, in abeyance, suspended, hanging (fire), neither here nor there, Colloq on hold, treading water, holding one's breath, US in a holding pattern, on the shelf, on the back burner:
My career is in limbo till I learn the result of the interview.
Concise English dictionary
limbos'lɪmbəʊ
noun
+the state of being disregarded or forgotten
+an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
+(theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)
