Definitions for savage
ˈsæv ɪdʒsav·age

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. savage, barbariannoun

   a member of an uncivilized people

2. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcatadjective

   a cruelly rapacious person

3. barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, viciousadjective

   (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

   "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

4. feral, ferine, savageadjective

   wild and menacing

   "a pack of feral dogs"

5. barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wildadjective

   without civilizing influences

   "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"

6. ferocious, fierce, furious, savageverb

   marked by extreme and violent energy

   "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"

7. savageverb

   attack brutally and fiercely

8. savage, blast, pillory, crucifyverb

   criticize harshly or violently

   "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. savagenoun

   An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.

2. savagenoun

   A defiant person.

3. savageverb

   To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

4. savageverb

   To criticise vehemently.

   His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.

5. savageverb

   To attack with the teeth

6. savageadjective

   wild; not cultivated

7. savageadjective

   barbaric; not civilized

8. savageadjective

   fierce and ferocious

9. savageadjective

   brutal, vicious or merciless

   The woman was killed in a savage manner.

10. savageadjective

    unpleasant or unfair

11. Etymology: From sauvage, salvage, from salvaticus, alteration of silvaticus, from silva.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SAVAGEadjective

   Etymology: sauvage, French; selvaggio, Italian.

   1. Wild; uncultivated.

   These godlike virtues wherefore do’st thou hide,
   Affecting private life, or more obscure
   In savage wilderness? John Milton.

   Cornels, and savage berries of the wood,
   And roots and herbs, have been my meagre food. Dryden.

   2. Untamed; cruel.

   Chain me to some steepy mountain’s top,
   Where roaring bears and savage lions roam. William Shakespeare.

   Tyrants no more their savage nature kept,
   And foes to virtue wonder’d how they wept. Alexander Pope.

   3. Uncivilized; barbarous; untaught.

   Hence with your little ones:
   To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage;
   To do worse to you, were fell cruelty. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Thus people lived altogether a savage life, ’till Saturn, arriving on those coasts, devised laws to govern them by. Walter Raleigh.

   The savage clamour drown’d
   Both harp and voice. John Milton.

   A herd of wild beasts on the mountains, or a savage drove of men in caves, might be so disordered; but never a peculiar people. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.

2. Savagenoun

   A man untaught and uncivilized; a barbarian.

   Etymology: from the adjective.

   Long after these times were they but savages. Walter Raleigh.

   The seditious lived by rapine and ruin of all the country, omitting nothing of that which savages, enraged in the height of their unruly behaviour, do commit. John Hayward.

   To deprive us of metals is to make us mere savages; to change our corn for the old Arcadian diet, our houses and cities for dens and caves, and our clothing for skins of beasts: ’tis to bereave us of all arts and sciences, nay, of revealed religion. Richard Bentley.

3. To Savageverb

   To make barbarous, wild, or cruel. A word not well authorised.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Friends, relations, love himself,
   Savag’d by woe, forget the tender tie. James Thomson.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. savage

   The term "savage" generally refers to a person or behavior that is fierce, uncivilized, or lacking in cultural refinement. It can be used to describe someone or something that is wild, brutal, or primitive in nature.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Savageadjective

   of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness

2. Savageadjective

   wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts

3. Savageadjective

   uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners

4. Savageadjective

   characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit

5. Savagenoun

   a human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners

6. Savagenoun

   a man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian

7. Savageverb

   to make savage

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Savage

   Demetrius Savelio, better known by his stage name Savage, is a New Zealander rapper of Samoan descent, and a former member of hip hop group the Deceptikonz. In 2009, he became the first New Zealand hip hop artist in history to have a commercial single achieve platinum certification status in the United States for selling over one million copies. He is not to be confused with Savage of the underground Atlanta- and Bronx-based hip hop group Hard Knocks, which released one album in 1992.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Savage

   sav′āj, adj. wild: uncivilised: fierce: cruel: brutal: (her.) nude: naked.—n. a human being in a wild state: a brutal, fierce, or cruel person: a barbarian.—v.t. and v.i. to make savage, to play the savage.—n. Sav′agedom, a savage state: savages collectively.—adv. Sav′agely.—ns. Sav′ageness; Sav′agery, fierceness: ferocity: wild growth of plants; Sav′agism. [O. Fr. salvage—L. silvaticus, pertaining to the woods—silva, a wood.]

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1. savage

   Song lyrics by savage -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by savage on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SAVAGE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Savage is ranked #690 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Savage surname appeared 49,914 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 17 would have the surname Savage.
   
   74.8% or 37,356 total occurrences were White.
   19.5% or 9,768 total occurrences were Black.
   2.2% or 1,108 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2% or 1,033 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 399 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 250 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Assail
   • Criticize
   • Primitive

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Anagrams for savage »

1. agaves

How to pronounce savage?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say savage in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of savage in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of savage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of savage in a Sentence

1. Nicolas Maduro:

   What's a bachaquero? it's a human being turned savage.

2. Diane Ackerman:

   It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

3. Alley Mills:

   When we shot the series finale…nobody knew whether or not ‘The Wonder Years’ was going to be renewed. And that’s because of a completely ridiculous sexual harassment suit that was going on against Fred Savage — who is like, the least offensive, most wonderful, sweet human being that ever walked the face of the Earth.

4. Keir Giles:

   Russia has a history of vicious and savage reprisals against civilians in any area when any kind of resistance movement is taking place. It's moved already to deport people from Mariupol to the remote parts of Russia, which is straight out of Russia's 20th century script for dealing with these problems.

5. Laura Cummings Balgari:

   We are frequently faced with that misrepresentation or that warrior savage imagery that our ancestors were killed for, generally, we are represented as artifacts, people that aren't really real... but we are very much still a part of our tribal communities. We are living, breathing, evolving people just like any other group of people and we'd like to be recognized as that.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=savage
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Savage
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=savage
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/savage
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=savage
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=savage
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=savage