Usually means: Fierce, untamed, and ferociously wild.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word savage:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. savage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Savage, savage: Merriam-Webster
  3. savage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. savage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. savage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. savage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Savage, savage: Wordnik
  8. savage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Savage, savage: Wiktionary
  10. savage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. savage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. savage: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. savage: Dictionary.com
  14. savage (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. savage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Savage (Eurythmics album), Savage (Judad Priest song), Savage (Laymon novel), Savage (Megan Thee Stallion song), Savage (Songs from a Broken World), Savage (Tank album), Savage (Thee Stallion song), Savage (band), Savage (disambiguation), Savage (rapper), Savage (song), Savage (surname), Savage (video), Savage (video game), Savage, Savage, The Savage (Almond book), The Savage (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Savage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. savage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. savage: Rhymezone
  20. savage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. savage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Savage: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. savage: FreeDictionary.org
  24. savage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. savage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. savage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Savage: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. savage: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. savage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. savage: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAVAGE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Savage (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. savage, savage: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Savage: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

(Note: See savaged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
adjective:  Barbaric; not civilized.
adjective:  Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
adjective:  Fierce and ferocious.
adjective:  Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
adjective:  (slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way.
adjective:  (UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
adjective:  (Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.
adjective:  (US, slang) Severe, rude, aggressive.
noun:  (derogatory) A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.
noun:  (figuratively) An aggressively defiant person.
noun:  (slang) Someone who speaks in an audacious, hilarious, and often sarcastic manner.
noun:  (obsolete) A wild and ferocious beast.
verb:  To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
verb:  (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
verb:  (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland.
noun:  A suburban city in Scott County, Minnesota; a suburb of Minneapolis.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tate County, Mississippi.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Richland County, Montana.

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