CAVEMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caveman mean? 

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

1. someone who lives in a cave

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAVEMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who lives in a cave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cave dweller; cave man; caveman; troglodyte

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

primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)

 Context examples 

Truly she was my woman, my mate-woman, fighting with me and for me as the mate of a caveman would have fought, all the primitive in her aroused, forgetful of her culture, hard under the softening civilization of the only life she had ever known.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)