Definition of Cave dweller

1. Noun. Someone who lives in a cave.

Exact synonyms: Cave Man, Caveman, Troglodyte
Generic synonyms: Primitive, Primitive Person

Definition of Cave dweller

1. Noun. (politically correct) Prehistoric human who lived in caves, a caveman or cavewoman ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively pejorative) One who behaves like a caveman. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cave Dweller

cavaquinho
cavaquinhos
cavas
cavascope
cavatelli
cavatina
cavatinas
cavatine
cave-in
cave bat
cave bear
cave bears
cave dweller
cave dwellers
cave in
cave ins
cave lion
cave lions
cave man
cave myotis
cave painting
cave paintings
cave sickness
caveach
caveat
caveat emptor
caveat lector

Literary usage of Cave dweller

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The original or rudimentary type of the profession of imitative sculptors or painters is the cave-dweller of prehistoric ages, who, when he rested from his ..."

2. Elementary Civics: "The New Civics" by Charles McCarthy, Flora Swan, Jennie Willing McMullin (1918)
"The cave dweller and his family dwelt apart from and on the defensive against the encroachments of every other family. Read in class this story of one day ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"caves, and one may yet be found ; but how the present form became a cave dweller is difficult of explanation, as its nearest allies are certain species of ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1881)
"The cave-dweller of the Saga, a male evil- spirit, plays, in the second Icelandic legend, the role ascribed by the Anglo-Saxon epic to the mother of Grendel ..."

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