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Tarzanian

Tarzanian adjective: of, relating to, or in the style of the fictional character Tarzan; having the physique or abilities of Tarzan.

Adjective

Tarzanian (comparative more Tarzanian, superlative most Tarzanian)

  1. Of, relating to, or in the style of the fictional character Tarzan; having the physique or abilities of Tarzan.
    • “Cocktail Sar” is a breathless tale of midnight gambling, in the white moonlight of tropical nights in Batavia, and “Kadiamar” is a well turned protest against Tarzanian fiction.1922 September 23, Country Life, London, page 381, column 2
    • How was this little girl going to accomplish the theft of the diamonds from the huge, Tarzanian Spaniard?1924, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Ant-Men, Chicago: A.C. McClurg, page 130

Noun

Tarzanian (plural Tarzanians)

  1. A person with or exhibiting Tarzanian attributes.
    • Golfers, I repeat, may not be as physically endowed as the tarzanians of other sports.1971, Tommy Bolt with Jimmy Mann, The Hole Truth, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., page 43
    • Those same Green Berets who so captivated your pen were among the invited, and about twenty of us well-dressed guests were treated to a dozen of those fatuous if strapping young studs jet-popping ten feet above the croquet sward, while others—Tarzanians, I call them—were swinging on ropes from tree...1991, Norman Mailer, Harlot's Ghost, New York: Random House, page 1055

Forms of Tarzanian

Adjective
comparativemore Tarzanian
superlativemost Tarzanian
Noun
pluralTarzanians

Origin of Tarzanian

From Tarzan + -ian.

Questions about Tarzanian

What does Tarzanian mean?
Tarzanian means of, relating to, or in the style of the fictional character Tarzan; having the physique or abilities of Tarzan.
What part of speech is Tarzanian?
Tarzanian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Tarzanian in the dictionary

  1. Tarzan-speak
  2. Tarzana
  3. Tarzaned
  4. Tarzanese
  5. Tarzanesque
  6. Tarzanian
  7. Tarzaniana
  8. Tarzanians
  9. Tarzanic
  10. Tarzaning
  11. Tarzanish

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