cub
(kʌb )
Word forms: cubs language note: The spelling Cub is also used for meanings [sense 2], , [sense 3], and , [sense 4].language note: The spelling Cub is also used for meanings [sense 2] and , [sense 3].
1. countable noun [oft noun NOUN] B2
A cub is a young wild animal such as a lion, wolf, or bear.
...three five-week-old lion cubs.
2. proper noun [with singular or plural verb]
The Cubs or the Cub Scouts is a version of the Scouts for young people between the ages of eight and ten.
3. countable noun
A cub or a cub scout is a young person who is a member of the Cubs.
4. uncountable noun [usually preposition NOUN]
Cubs is a meeting of the Cubs.
He was on his way to Cubs.
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Collocations:
leopard cub
Before the lioness and her leopard cub pounced onto the scene, there had been just two other documented instances of interspecies adoption.
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But a fuzzy, blue-eyed leopard cub managed to manage to melt another big cat’s lion heart.
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Over the course of a 45-day observation period, however, the researchers saw the leopard cub hanging out with its foster family on 29 different days.
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I was carrying a leopard cub that scratched me.
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The snow leopard cub padded into view and ten million hearts leapt.
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Translations:
Chinese: 幼兽
Japanese: 野獣の子
- vigilante
- vigilante action
- vigilante justice
- vignette
- vigor
- vigorous
- vigorous activity
- vigorous campaign
- vigorous competition
- vigorous debate
- vigorous defence
- vigorous discussion
- vigorous enforcement of
- vigorous exercise
- vigorous growth
- vigorously
- vigorous opposition
- vigorous plant
- vigorous pursuit
- vigorous workout
- vigour
- Viking
- vile
- vile images
- vilification