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Definition of Cave dweller
1. Noun. Someone who lives in a cave.
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
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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