savage – English noun declension

English noun forms of savage

Noun: savage
Singularsavage
Pluralsavages

Sample Sentences

  • 'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages.'
  • 'They are not savages, Freeman.'
  • 'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.' [1847, Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred: or The New Crusade, page 251:]
  • The natives here, even those who seem to be of pare Papuan race, were much more reserved and taciturn than those of Ké. This is probably because I only saw them as yet among strangers and in small parties. One must see the savage at home to know what he really is. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 206:]
  • The glimpse of the steamboat had for some reason filled those savages with unrestrained grief. [1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II, page 491:]
  • In the year 1879, when the Utes succeeded in getting some United States troops into what was afterwards known as Thornburg's "rat hole," several mounted couriers succeeded in slipping through the circling line of savages. [1901 July 19, “Horses in time of War”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 296:]
  • When Davey grasped spears and wommera it was impossible to recognize in this painted savage the alert, nattily dressed tracker. [1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77:]
  • Although he shows traces of the Romantic belief in the felicity of the savage, these are not numerous or important and there is no suggestion in his work that mankind could or should revert to a primitive life-style. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 411:]
  • Their kids are little savages! One of them bit me the other day.
  • It was on Dec. 29 that TikTok star Liv Pearsall posted a video titled "7 Times Elmo Was an Absolute Savage," in which the star with more than 2.7 million followers lip-synced to various Elmo-ments. [2022 January 6, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Elmo's feud with a pet rock has consumed the internet”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 29 May 2023:]
  • "Sometimes they would stay up while she'd have a whole new guy in a relationship," she wrote in a comment. "LMFAO she is a savage." [2022 August 31, Emily Lefroy, “I 'hard launch' my first dates on Instagram: Confident or unhinged?”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2022:]
  • The torch-eyed ſavage, with growl tremendous, riſing up, diſlocated at one blow the arched neck of Sadit's Arabian ſteed, and brought the unfortunate omrah to the duſt, expiring between his extended claws. [1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 7:]

Etymology

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'savage', Latin Nouns 'silvāticus'.