Definition of: zombi

(zom′bē) noun
1. In West African voodoo cults, the python deity; also, the snake deity of the voodoo cults of Haiti and of the southern United States.
2. The supernatural power by which a dead body is believed to be reanimated; specifically, a corpse reactivated by sorcery, but still dead.
3. Loosely, a ghost. Also zom′bie. [<West African. Cf. Bantu (Congo) zumbi fetish.]
—zom′bi·ism noun