caveman
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈkeɪvˌmæn/
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hombre de las cavernas
- In ancient times, a caveman would use simple tools to hunt for food.
- prehistoric caveman
- the caveman days
- the caveman diet
We 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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6.0
A person or animal that lives in a cave, often in ancient times
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4.3
A very early person who lived in caves long ago
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.