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Word entry · 6 letters

savage

Best crossword clue

"Wild and fierce"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈsævɪd͡ʒ/Part of speech adjective, verb, nounSorted aaegsvStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. without civilizing influences

Word origin

From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, untamed”), from Late Latin salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”), from silva (“forest; grove”). Doublet of sylvatic.

Used in a sentence

  • a savage wilderness
  • a savage forest
  • Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage / And make a Northwest Passage to the sea.

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