Explore Baboon through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Baboon meaning
- An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
- A foolish or boorish person.
Synonyms of Baboon
Using Baboon
- The main meaning on this page is: An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. | A foolish or boorish person.
- Useful related words include: old world monkey, catarrhine.
- In the example corpus, baboon often appears in combinations such as: the baboon.
Context around Baboon
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Baboon
- In this selection, "baboon" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jogging, female, real, notes, destroys and spiders stand out and add context to how "baboon" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a real baboon in that and as horned baboon spiders. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "baboon" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with baboon
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Baboon destroys car brake light during Safari Drive. (8 words)
Anyway, given your behaviour, you may as well have descended from a baboon! (13 words)
The Great Baboon EscapeAround 50 baboons escaped from their enclosure in Paris' main zoo on Friday. (16 words)
More animal escapades include the life of Cosmo, a mischievous Fallow deer as he attempts to charm the ladies and the heart-warming antics of Kevin the baboon as he comes of age. (33 words)
Southwest African colonial officials and military men took the view that the Herero were actually a form of baboon or other monkey, but not human. (25 words)
Then Ford popped up in Cobourg, saying it’ll be so easy to bring manufacturing jobs back to Ontario that a baboon could do it. (25 words)
Anyway, given your behaviour, you may as well have descended from a baboon! (13 words)
Example sentences (13)
As the jogging baboon notes at the end of Season 2, "Every day it gets a little easier.
When Altmann exposed the female baboon’s trick, many found it hard to believe such a calculating, albeit unconscious move was possible.
Baboon destroys car brake light during Safari Drive.
More animal escapades include the life of Cosmo, a mischievous Fallow deer as he attempts to charm the ladies and the heart-warming antics of Kevin the baboon as he comes of age.
Obviously, Scott could not use a real baboon in that scene, but the CGI version came out looking distractingly unfinished, and borderline unearthly.
Anyway, given your behaviour, you may as well have descended from a baboon!
In 1984, doctors in California performed the first baboon-to-human in a 14-day-old girl, known as Baby Fae.
Southwest African colonial officials and military men took the view that the Herero were actually a form of baboon or other monkey, but not human.
The newly discovered species, Ceratogyrus attonitifer, belongs to a group of tarantulas known as horned baboon spiders.
This was Gwenzi’s first opportunity to use spatial data for his plantation baboon bark stripping research project in July 2006.
The Great Baboon EscapeAround 50 baboons escaped from their enclosure in Paris' main zoo on Friday.
Then Ford popped up in Cobourg, saying it’ll be so easy to bring manufacturing jobs back to Ontario that a baboon could do it.
In some areas of Africa, troops of large baboon species (potential leopard prey themselves) will kill and sometimes eat leopard young if they discover them.
Common combinations with baboon
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: