MAN-EATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does man-eater mean? 

• MAN-EATER (noun)
  The noun MAN-EATER has 2 senses:

1. a person who eats human flesh

2. large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans

  Familiarity information: MAN-EATER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAN-EATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who eats human flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

anthropophagite; anthropophagus; cannibal; man-eater

Hypernyms ("man-eater" is a kind of...):

barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Carcharodon carcharias; great white shark; man-eater; man-eating shark; white shark

Hypernyms ("man-eater" is a kind of...):

mackerel shark (fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks)

Holonyms ("man-eater" is a member of...):

Carcharodon; genus Carcharodon (man-eating sharks)

 Context examples 

He drew up his legs, and the man-eater seemed no more than barely to touch one foot, sinking back into the water with a splash.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This that we hunt from our village is a tiger, too, a man-eater, and he never cease to prowl.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Your man-eater, as they of India call the tiger who has once tasted blood of the human, care no more for the other prey, but prowl unceasing till he get him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)