Tabooed is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tabooed meaning
Forbidden; prohibited.
Using Tabooed
- The main meaning on this page is: Forbidden; prohibited.
Context around Tabooed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 35.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tabooed
- In this selection, "tabooed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 35.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, women stand out and add context to how "tabooed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include etc be tabooed so that and marriageable vs tabooed women. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tabooed" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tabooed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Both death of a person and successfully hunted game require that cutting, sewing etc. be tabooed, so that the invisible soul does not get hurt accidentally (Kleivan & Sonne, pp. 18–21). (31 words)
Lévi-Strauss included this in his conceptualization of the universal structures of the mind, which he held to operate based on pairs of binary oppositions such as hot-cold, male-female, culture-nature, cooked-raw, or marriageable vs. tabooed women. (40 words)
Lévi-Strauss included this in his conceptualization of the universal structures of the mind, which he held to operate based on pairs of binary oppositions such as hot-cold, male-female, culture-nature, cooked-raw, or marriageable vs. tabooed women. (40 words)
Both death of a person and successfully hunted game require that cutting, sewing etc. be tabooed, so that the invisible soul does not get hurt accidentally (Kleivan & Sonne, pp. 18–21). (31 words)
Example sentences (2)
Both death of a person and successfully hunted game require that cutting, sewing etc. be tabooed, so that the invisible soul does not get hurt accidentally (Kleivan & Sonne, pp. 18–21).
Lévi-Strauss included this in his conceptualization of the universal structures of the mind, which he held to operate based on pairs of binary oppositions such as hot-cold, male-female, culture-nature, cooked-raw, or marriageable vs. tabooed women.