sauvage

Definitions of sauvage
  1. noun
    a cruelly rapacious person
    synonyms: brute
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    type of:
    agresseur, attaquant
    someone who attacks
  2. noun
    a member of an uncivilized people
    synonyms: barbare
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    types:
    cannibale
    a person who eats human flesh
    type of:
    personne primitive, primitif
    a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
  3. noun
    a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
    synonyms: autochtone, indigène
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    type of:
    Australien
    a native or inhabitant of Australia
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