cave woman
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- noun
- /keɪv ˈwʊmən/
- The cave woman painted images of animals on the walls of her home to communicate with others.
Examples
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You cave woman.
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In ancient times, a cave woman would use stones for tools and gather food from the wild.
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To survive, the cave woman often foraged for berries and hunted small animals.
Synonyms
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A person or animal that lives in a cave, often in ancient times
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A woman from the Stone Age who often lived in caves
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'cave' (a subterranean chamber) + 'woman' (an adult female) yields 'a woman associated with or living in a cave', which matches the given definition of a prehistoric or cave-dwelling woman. This is a standard noun-noun combination pattern found cross-linguistically and should be immediately inferable by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Cave woman comes from the simple picture of a woman living in a cave long ago, using stone tools and animal skins. So it means 'a woman from long ago who lived in caves'.