WILD MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild man mean? 

• WILD MAN (noun)
  The noun WILD MAN has 1 sense:

1. a person who is not socialized

  Familiarity information: WILD MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is not socialized

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

feral man; wild man

Hypernyms ("wild man" is a kind of...):

primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)

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

ape-man (a person assumed to have been raised by apes)

wolf boy (a male person assumed to have been raised by wolves)

 Context examples 

When it was open the wild man stepped out, gave him the golden ball, and hurried away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The glimmering vision was rent asunder and dissipated by Arthur, who, all evening, had been trying to draw his wild man out.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The governess had run away two months before; and for all Mr. Rochester sought her as if she had been the most precious thing he had in the world, he never could hear a word of her; and he grew savage—quite savage on his disappointment: he never was a wild man, but he got dangerous after he lost her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“What do you desire?” asked the wild man.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But while he belied Arthur's description, and appeared a gentle lamb rather than a wild man, he was racking his brains for a course of action.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The boy had become afraid; he called and cried after him: “Oh, wild man, do not go away, or I shall be beaten!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He did not know that his quietness was giving the lie to Arthur's words of the day before, when that brother of hers had announced that he was going to bring a wild man home to dinner and for them not to be alarmed, because they would find him an interesting wild man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The wild man turned back, took him up, set him on his shoulder, and went with hasty steps into the forest.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The next day he again went and asked for his ball; the wild man said: “Open my door,” but the boy would not.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then the wild man said: “It lies under your mother’s pillow, you can get it there.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)