savage

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Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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Definition

  1. noun a member of an uncivilized people
  2. noun a cruelly rapacious person
  3. verb attack brutally and fiercely

Etymology

From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, untamed”), from Late Latin salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”), from silva (“forest; grove”). Doublet of sylvatic.

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Synonyms

barbarian

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