German

Noun

Zombie m ‎(genitive Zombies, plural Zombies)

1. zombie

English

Alternative forms

• zombi

Noun

zombie ‎(plural zombies)

1. A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
2. (voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
3. (fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.

   I shot a zombie. He was a zombie, Kenneth. The pilot was bitten before he picked us up!

4. (figuratively) An apathetic person.
5. (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.

   After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.

6. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.^[1]
7. (computing) A process or task which has terminated but was not removed from the list of processes, typically because it has child processes that have not yet terminated.
8. (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
9. A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
   • 1976, Harvard Advocate CX:ii, pages 8 and 380:

     The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie with him. Those zombies are wicked.

     […]

     I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.

10. (Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.^[2]
    • 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,

      Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?

11. (philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

Synonyms

• (person that is undead): living dead, ghoul, walking dead
• (information worker): intellectual prostitute

Derived terms

Translations

References

1. ↑ EE Times, "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
2. ↑ The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.

Esperanto

Adverb

zombie

1. in the manner of a zombie, zombically

Related terms

• zombia ‎(“related to zombie(s), zombic”)
• zombiigi ‎(“zombify”)
• zombio ‎(“zombie”)

Finnish

Noun

zombie

1. Alternative form of zombi

Declension

French

Adjective

zombie

1. feminine singular of zombi

Italian

Noun

zombie m, f ‎(invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of zombi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From a Bantu language, via English zombie

Noun

zombie m ‎(definite singular zombien, indefinite plural zombier, definite plural zombiene)

1. a zombie

See also

• zombi (Nynorsk) (although the spelling "zombie" is apparently also used)

References

• “zombie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Slovak

Etymology

Ultimately, from a Bantu language.

Noun

zombie m ‎(genitive singular zombieho, nominative plural zombieovia, declension pattern of kuli)

1. zombie

Declension

Synonyms

• zombi m
• zombia f

References

• zombie in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Noun

zombie m ‎(plural zombies)

1. Alternative spelling of zombi

Swedish

Noun

zombie c

1. zombie

Declension