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PRIMITIVE PERSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
Synonyms:
primitive; primitive person
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("primitive person" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "primitive person"):
Aryan; Indo-European (a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European)
autochthon (the earliest known inhabitants of a region)
Basket Maker (early Amerindians related to the Pueblo; known for skill in making baskets)
cave dweller; cave man; caveman; troglodyte (someone who lives in a cave)
Heidelberg man; Homo heidelbergensis (a type of primitive man who lived in Europe)
ape-man; missing link (hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings)
Mound Builder (prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds)
Piltdown hoax; Piltdown man (a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax)
barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)
