CANNIBAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cannibal mean? 

• CANNIBAL (noun)
  The noun CANNIBAL has 1 sense:

1. a person who eats human flesh

  Familiarity information: CANNIBAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANNIBAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who eats human flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

anthropophagite; anthropophagus; cannibal; man-eater

Hypernyms ("cannibal" is a kind of...):

barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)

Derivation:

cannibalic (marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage)

cannibalise (eat human flesh)

cannibalistic (characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism)

cannibalize (eat human flesh)

 Context examples 

I began to recall what I had heard of cannibals.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"For all I know there may be a tribe of cannibals waitin' for lunch-time among those very bushes," said Lord John, looking across the bridge.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Miranha or Amajuaca cannibals," said Challenger, jerking his thumb towards the reverberating wood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)