TARZAN

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• TARZAN (noun)
  The noun TARZAN has 2 senses:

1. (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

2. a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Familiarity information: TARZAN used as a noun is rare.

• TARZAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Tarzan; Tarzan of the Apes

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))