OGRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ogre mean? 

• OGRE (noun)
  The noun OGRE has 2 senses:

1. a cruel wicked and inhuman person

2. (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings

  Familiarity information: OGRE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OGRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cruel wicked and inhuman person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

demon; devil; fiend; monster; ogre

Hypernyms ("ogre" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ogre"):

demoniac (someone who acts as if possessed by a demon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ogre" is a kind of...):

giant (an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales)

Domain category:

folklore (the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ogre"):

ogress ((folklore) a female ogre)

 Context examples 

Do you suppose I eat like an ogre or a ghoul, that you dread being the companion of my repast?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So, with Spartan firmness, the young authoress laid her first-born on her table, and chopped it up as ruthlessly as any ogre.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And so we dodged about the deck, hand in hand, like a couple of children chased by a wicked ogre, till Wolf Larsen, evidently in disgust, left the deck for the cabin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You are an ogre.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He caught a glimpse of that pathetic figure of him, so long ago, a self-conscious savage, sprouting sweat at every pore in an agony of apprehension, puzzled by the bewildering minutiae of eating-implements, tortured by the ogre of a servant, striving at a leap to live at such dizzy social altitude, and deciding in the end to be frankly himself, pretending no knowledge and no polish he did not possess.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)