tarzan of the apes

1. 1.

   a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

   SynonymsTarzan

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about tarzan of the apes

What does tarzan of the apes mean?

tarzan of the apes means "a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs".

What is another word for tarzan of the apes?

Close synonyms include Tarzan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tarzan of the apes a common word?

tarzan of the apes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.