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troglodyte
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman. 2 (context by extension English) Anything that lives underground. 3 A reclusive, reactionary or out-of-date person, especially if brutish. 4 The wren, ''Troglodytes troglodytes''. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Troglodyte \Trog"lo*dyte\, n. [L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. ? one who creeps into holes; ? a hole, cavern (fr. ? to gnaw) + ? enter: cf. F. troglodyte.] (Ethnol.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Troglodyte may refer to: Troglodytae or Troglodyti , an ancient group of people from the African Red Sea coast Troglodites , a fictional tribe described in Montesquieu's Persian Letters , supposedly descending from the ancient Troglodytae Homo troglodytes ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I was two stages below a troglodyte . ▪ They would all be troglodytes before the war was over, thought Lucinda, with eyes that stood out on little stalks. ▪ This scurrying around like troglodytes is enough to depress anyone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cave-dweller," 1550s, from Middle French troglodyte and directly from Latin troglodytae (plural), from Greek troglodytes "cave-dweller, cave-man" (in reference to tribes identified as living in various places by ancient writers; by Herodotus on the African ...
Usage examples of troglodyte.
Long Tom remembered, there was the Cappadocian troglodyte section of Asia Minor, almost in the shadow of Mount Argaeus, or Erjias Dagh, as the Turks called the mountain.
The old Hebrew graves were crypts, wide, deep holes, like the habitations of the troglodytes.
One of the most trying defects which I find in these Stratfordolaters, these Shakesperoids, these thugs, these bangalores, these troglodytes, these herumfrodites, these blatherskites, these buccaneers, these bandoleers, is their spirit of irreverence.
Ham insisted Chemistry was a pure-blooded, blue-blooded member of, the strain anthropopithecus troglodyte.
And why did those troglodytes accuse him of killing Hiliary Thurs-ton?
And, indeed, Plato saw the entire manifest world as a pale image of a Reality and Light beyond the Cave of Shadows, the Cave in which the troglodytes are chained, the Cave of fleeting sensory impressions and fluctuating mental opinions.
They have vast storehouses of foods such as these, not to mention larders of suspended troglodytes and Travellers.
They discovered and lived off the troglodytes in their deep caverns on Starside.
Neither of us were in the best condition, having but recently escaped from the noisome underground burrows of the troglodytes, but that made little difference to Hoggur.
Klygon and I, together with that smooth-tongued traitor who called himself Delgan of the Isles, had escaped from the underground cavern-world of the albino troglodytes, my friends were also escaping from the clutches of the ebony-skinned rulers for the Flying City.
I will tell you why they make me tell you about troglodytes, but forbid me to tell you about emperors.
The anthropoids welcomed his removal, but the troglodytes, led by Hefty, resented it.
The moment he appeared the troglodytes, displaying their former training, jumped to their feet like so many jack-in-the-boxes and stood at attention by their desks.
Stepan Atlantis slipped in under cover of his broad back, but the troglodytes dragged him back into the corridor.
He took care of our troglodytes good that time, and there was a reason why Alexander Karlovich respected him so.