[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

taboo \taboo"\, n.
   a total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach
   to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an
   interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common
   in the islands of polynesia; interdiction. written also
   tabu.
   1913 webster
see also:
tabu 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

taboo \taboo"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. tabooed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   tabooing.
   to put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to
   interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set
   apart as a sanctuary for criminals. written also tabu.
   1913 webster
see also:
tabooed tabooing tabu 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

taboo \taboo"\, a. written also tabu and tapu.
   polynesian tabu, tapu, sacred, under restriction, a
   prohibition.
   set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races
   of polynesia, new zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain
   persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties;
   interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be
   taboo.
   webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
tabu tapu 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

taboo
     adj 1: excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our
            house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo
            subject" syn: forbidden, outp, prohibited, proscribed,
             tabu, verboten
     2: forbidden to profane use especially in south pacific islands
        syn: tabu
     n 1: a prejudice especially in polynesia and other south pacific
          islands that prohibits the use or mention of something
          because of its sacred nature syn: tabu
     2: an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or
        emotional aversion syn: tabu
     v : declare as sacred and forbidden
see also:
forbidden outp prohibited proscribed tabu verboten 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

136 moby thesaurus words for "taboo":
   eighteenth amendment, prohibition party, volstead act, anathema,
   ban, banned, bar, bar out, barred, barring, blockade, boycott,
   censorable, censored, circumscription, contraband, count out,
   cut off, debar, debarment, debarring, demarcation, denial, deny,
   dirty, disallow, disallowance, embargo, enjoin, exception, exclude,
   exclude from, exclusion, explicit, forbade, forbid, forbiddance,
   forbidden, forbidden fruit, forbidding, freeze out, ignore,
   illegal, illicit, impolite, inadmissibility, indecorous, index,
   index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibit,
   inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdicted, interdiction,
   interdictum, jargonal, jargonish, keep out, law, leave out,
   limitation, lock out, lockout, narrowing, no-no, nonadmission,
   nonpermissible, not permitted, off limits, omission, omit,
   ostracize, out of bounds, outlaw, outlawed, pass over, preclude,
   preclusion, prevent, prevention, prohibit, prohibited, prohibition,
   prohibitory injunction, proscribe, proscribed, proscription,
   refusal, refuse, regulation, reject, rejection, relegate,
   relegation, repress, repression, repudiate, repudiation,
   reservation, restraint, restricted, restriction,
   restrictive covenants, rude, rule out, ruled out, ruling out,
   sanction, say no to, scatological, send to coventry, shut out,
   slang, slangy, statute, sumptuary laws, suppress, suppression,
   tabooed, unacceptable, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban,
   unlawful, unlicensed, unmentionable, unpermissible, unsanctioned,
   unspeakable, untouchable, verboten, vetoed, zoning, zoning laws

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