Определение limbo в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
The place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, notably those of the saints who died before the advent of Christ (limbus patruum) and those of unbaptized but innocent children (limbus infantum)
Any in-between place, state or condition of neglect or oblivion which results in an unresolved status, delay or deadlock
My application has been stuck in bureaucratic limbo for two weeks.
A dance played by taking turns crossing under a horizontal bar or stick. The stick is lowered with each round, and the game is won by the player who passes under the bar in the lowest position
Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo
An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment
{i} place between heaven and hell (Catholicism); state of oblivion; transitional state; dance in which the dancer bends backward and moves under a horizontal bar (originated in the West Indies)
(theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
If you say that someone or something is in limbo, you mean that they are in a situation where they seem to be caught between two stages and it is unclear what will happen next. The negotiations have been in limbo since mid-December. In Roman Catholicism, a region between heaven and hell, the dwelling place of souls not condemned to punishment but deprived of the joy of existence with God in heaven. The concept probably developed in the Middle Ages. Two distinct kinds of limbo were proposed: the limbus patrum ("fathers' limbo"), where Old Testament saints were confined until liberated by Jesus in his "descent into hell"; and the limbus infantum or limbus puerorum ("children's limbo"), the abode of those who died without actual sin but whose original sin had not been washed away by baptism or whose free will was restricted by mental deficiency. Today the Catholic church downplays the notion of limbo, and it is not an official part of church doctrine