Tarzan

Examples

• All

• You must have watched a lot of Tarzan movies to get your cinematic worldview.

  Blog text (6)

• Okay, Tarzan, I'll bring you back some bananas.

  Mad Max (1979)

• I was with Tarzan that day and I felt his love.

  Vanity Fair

• Oh, speaking of action, when am I gonna meet Tarzan?

  Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

• "I laughed again; the Tarzan talk made me feel so happy."

  Fiction book (1998)

• Why do you always make me feel like Jane in a Tarzan comic?

  Crocodile Dundee (1986)

• I had never seen such a beast except in the movies of Tarzan.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Don't get carried away, Tarzan.

  To All a Goodnight (1980)

• That's Tarzan.

  Rich Kids (1979)

• We start hearing noises—the equivalent of scary jungle sounds in a Tarzan movie—the hissing, croaking, chirruping...

  Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

A

ape-man

vsTarzan

• Literature

4 9.9

A person raised by apes in stories or myths

refers to a specific named hero created by Burroughs rather than a general type

T

Tarzan of the Apes

vsTarzan

• Literature

1 5.1

A man raised by apes who is the hero of adventure books

is the common short name rather than the original full title

Compounds

T

Tarzan of the Apes

• Literature

1 5.1

A man raised by apes who is the hero of adventure books

Surface Forms

Etymology