"Neandertaler" meaning in English

See Neandertaler in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Neandertalers [plural]
Etymology: From German Neandertaler. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Neandertaler}} German Neandertaler Head templates: {{en-noun}} Neandertaler (plural Neandertalers)
  1. Synonym of Neanderthal. Categories (lifeform): Hominids Synonyms: Neanderthal [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-Neandertaler-en-noun-4qA4GhFG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Neandertaler meaning in English (4.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Neandertaler"
      },
      "expansion": "German Neandertaler",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From German Neandertaler.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Neandertalers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Neandertaler (plural Neandertalers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hominids",
          "orig": "en:Hominids",
          "parents": [
            "Primates",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Hugo v[on] Buttel-Reepen, Man and His Forerunners, London: Longmans, Green and Co., pages 50 and 74",
          "text": "This snout-like type of face, with the projecting jaws and wide nose, persists to some extent among certain living races, notably among the Australian aborigines, whose skulls have features in common with those of Neandertalers. […] It is supposed that the forerunners of the Neandertalers and of the gorilla evolved for so far together, because their respective skeletons have so many points in common.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Science Progress in the Twentieth Century: A Quarterly Journal of Scientific Work & Thought, volume X, page 269",
          "text": "The skeleton of the fourth species, the Neandertalers, is almost completely known from the remains of numerous individuals. These Neandertalers are most puzzling beings. They had receding foreheads with monstrous brow-ridges, and they walked with a permanent crouch, and yet they had big brains and were skilled workers in stone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Björn Kurtén, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, Routledge, published 2017, pages 60–61",
          "text": "Neandertal Man, Homo neanderthalensis King. The true or ‘classical’ Neandertaler with his dorsally flattened, very large and long head, big brow ridges, prognathous face, round eye sockets, very large braincase and a stockily built, powerful body, lived during the 4-Würm up to the great interstadial about 35,000 years ago, when this species became extinct. […] Our own species may be definitely identified in the 4-Würm interstadial, the time when men of modern type invaded Europe and ousted the Neandertalers. On the other hand, it has been thought that specimens like Fontéchevade Man (two skull caps without a trace of the Neandertal brow ridge) have to be counted in this species, even if Steinheim and Swanscombe are left as Neandertalers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of the Human Fossils, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, page 36",
          "text": "This was the most complete Neandertal skeleton found in western Europe up to that time. Once it was reconstructed, the world could see what a Neandertaler looked like. […] Piltdown Man was one of Boule’s proofs that modern humans with their high-domed skulls dated much further back than the Neandertalers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, “Neandertalers”, in Academic American Encyclopedia, volume 14, pages 68–69",
          "text": "The Neandertalers (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) were a subspecies of prehistoric humans inhabiting Europe and parts of Western Asia from about 150,000 to 35,000 years ago. The first Neandertal fossil was discovered (1856) by quarrymen in a cave in the Neander Valley, near Düsseldorf, Germany. […] Evidence indicates that the Neandertalers hunted a variety of animals, including cave bear, woolly rhinoceros, and mammoth, and also gathered plant foods.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of Neanderthal."
      ],
      "id": "en-Neandertaler-en-noun-4qA4GhFG",
      "links": [
        [
          "Neanderthal",
          "Neanderthal#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "Neanderthal"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Neandertaler"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "de:Anthropology",
    "de:Hominids"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Neandertaler"
      },
      "expansion": "German Neandertaler",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From German Neandertaler.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Neandertalers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Neandertaler (plural Neandertalers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from German",
        "English terms derived from German",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Hominids"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Hugo v[on] Buttel-Reepen, Man and His Forerunners, London: Longmans, Green and Co., pages 50 and 74",
          "text": "This snout-like type of face, with the projecting jaws and wide nose, persists to some extent among certain living races, notably among the Australian aborigines, whose skulls have features in common with those of Neandertalers. […] It is supposed that the forerunners of the Neandertalers and of the gorilla evolved for so far together, because their respective skeletons have so many points in common.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Science Progress in the Twentieth Century: A Quarterly Journal of Scientific Work & Thought, volume X, page 269",
          "text": "The skeleton of the fourth species, the Neandertalers, is almost completely known from the remains of numerous individuals. These Neandertalers are most puzzling beings. They had receding foreheads with monstrous brow-ridges, and they walked with a permanent crouch, and yet they had big brains and were skilled workers in stone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Björn Kurtén, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, Routledge, published 2017, pages 60–61",
          "text": "Neandertal Man, Homo neanderthalensis King. The true or ‘classical’ Neandertaler with his dorsally flattened, very large and long head, big brow ridges, prognathous face, round eye sockets, very large braincase and a stockily built, powerful body, lived during the 4-Würm up to the great interstadial about 35,000 years ago, when this species became extinct. […] Our own species may be definitely identified in the 4-Würm interstadial, the time when men of modern type invaded Europe and ousted the Neandertalers. On the other hand, it has been thought that specimens like Fontéchevade Man (two skull caps without a trace of the Neandertal brow ridge) have to be counted in this species, even if Steinheim and Swanscombe are left as Neandertalers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of the Human Fossils, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, page 36",
          "text": "This was the most complete Neandertal skeleton found in western Europe up to that time. Once it was reconstructed, the world could see what a Neandertaler looked like. […] Piltdown Man was one of Boule’s proofs that modern humans with their high-domed skulls dated much further back than the Neandertalers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, “Neandertalers”, in Academic American Encyclopedia, volume 14, pages 68–69",
          "text": "The Neandertalers (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) were a subspecies of prehistoric humans inhabiting Europe and parts of Western Asia from about 150,000 to 35,000 years ago. The first Neandertal fossil was discovered (1856) by quarrymen in a cave in the Neander Valley, near Düsseldorf, Germany. […] Evidence indicates that the Neandertalers hunted a variety of animals, including cave bear, woolly rhinoceros, and mammoth, and also gathered plant foods.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of Neanderthal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Neanderthal",
          "Neanderthal#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "Neanderthal"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Neandertaler"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.