caveman
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- noun
- /ˈkeɪvˌmæn/
- In ancient times, a caveman would use simple tools to hunt for food.
- prehistoric caveman
- the caveman days
- the caveman diet
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Watch on YouTubeWe sort of look back on pre linguistic Cavemen as well.
- We sort of look back on pre linguistic Cavemen as well.
- If if you're in the wild caveman times, right?
- We are tribal since since the dawn of man, since caveman era.
- So back in say, caveman times my guy, I don't reckon they had hay fever.
- So if we go all the way back to caveman times, so let's say you would have to build a team to hunt the mammal.
- It's it's all triggered by that, that amygdala, that portion of our brain that goes back to being Cavemen.
- There's still caveman inside of our genes.
- There's nothing below the facade that they have to keep up this caveman style of thinking.
- You know what we're going to be, we're going to be Cavemen.
Examples
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If you were a caveman, location mattered.
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All the way back to when one caveman killed another caveman's son with a stick to steal his woman.
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Yeah, but way back in caveman times ye now.
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I mean, I'm talking about since the caveman times.
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In the caveman days, I'd be having children of my own.
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After all, back in the caveman days, there wasn't a lot of long-term dating.
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We're driven by programs that were created in caveman (and cavewoman) times, and even before that.
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Back in the Johnny Caveman days, groups of humans couldn't leave their camp unattended at night.
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Get in touch with your inner caveman with an overnight stay in this rock-cut hotel in Cappadocia.
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For this particular mix, I'm going to channel Cavemen of yore who both needed food and fire, so they had a very effective technique.
Synonyms
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9.9
A person who lives in a cave or who lives apart from others and is old-fashioned
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4.3
A very early person who lived in caves long ago
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A person or animal that lives in a cave, often in ancient times
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Caveman is made from cave and man, where cave means 'a hole or shelter in rock' and man means 'person'. So a caveman is an early person who lived in caves, which is why the word brings to mind prehistoric people with simple tools.