PRIMITIVE PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does primitive person mean? 

• PRIMITIVE PERSON (noun)
  The noun PRIMITIVE PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

  Familiarity information: PRIMITIVE PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIMITIVE PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

primitive; primitive person

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)

feral man; wild man (a person who is not socialized)