cave dweller

American  

noun

1. a person whose home is a cave.

2. a prehistoric person who lived in caves.

3. Facetious. a person who lives in an apartment building or the like in a large city.

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Etymology

Origin of cave dweller

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

The film uses a fable-like framing story about two prehistoric cave dwellers who may very well be the first married couple.

From Los Angeles Times

It was the middle of the 20th Century when England's last cave dwellers gave up their homes in a rural part of the country near Birmingham.

From BBC

But new evidence from the oldest known DNA from the British Isles shows the two sets of cave dwellers had dramatically different ancestry.

From Science Magazine

Posting videos of his projects made him a star in a growing subgenre of people pretending to live like cave dwellers and building things out of raw materials with their bare hands.

From New York Times

“A stranger comes to town and changes everything” is likely a story first told by cave dwellers.

From New York Times