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Plural of caveman

irregular plural

The plural of caveman is cavemen.

Forms of caveman

Singularcaveman /ˈkeɪvˌmæn/
Pluralcavemen
Countablecountable

Cavemen in a sentence

  • And who could forget those ads that featured sophisticated cavemen who were insulted—in a parody on political correctness—by “insensitive” offenders who implied that some action was “so easy, a caveman could do it.”2010, Terence A. Shimp, Advertising, Promotion, and Other Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications, 8th edition, Cengage Learning...
  • In our case, Godzillaish creatures mated with cavemen in testubes and fertilized alien mommas.2011 May 14, Reptillian, “serious questions for atheists”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet). From the entry Godzillaish

Meaning of caveman

  1. noun An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
  2. noun A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.
  3. noun A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way.

Full definition of caveman

Nouns ending in -man: plural -men

Questions about the plural of caveman

What is the plural of caveman?
The plural of caveman is cavemen.
Is caveman countable?
Caveman is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caveman (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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