"caveman stage" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the notion that early humans dwelled in caves. The word caveman has later developed figurative senses with a connotation of primitiveness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caveman stages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "caveman stage (plural caveman stages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942, The Living Church, volume 104",
          "text": "What is life? What are the limitations of knowledge? Compared with the caveman's, our knowledge is vast, but compared with what there is to know, the wisest of men are still at the caveman stage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Steven Jenkins, Erika Stalder, 97 Things to Do Before You Finish High School",
          "text": "So how does one evolve out of the caveman stage of conversation? Easy: Just talk.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, William Gaspar, The World Tree",
          "text": "The caveman stage of human existence might have arrived for us after the Flood wiped out almost everybody and everything.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The early or primitive developmental stage."
      ],
      "id": "en-caveman_stage-en-noun-SJh4L4HF"
    }
  ],
  "word": "caveman stage"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the notion that early humans dwelled in caves. The word caveman has later developed figurative senses with a connotation of primitiveness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caveman stages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "caveman stage (plural caveman stages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942, The Living Church, volume 104",
          "text": "What is life? What are the limitations of knowledge? Compared with the caveman's, our knowledge is vast, but compared with what there is to know, the wisest of men are still at the caveman stage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Steven Jenkins, Erika Stalder, 97 Things to Do Before You Finish High School",
          "text": "So how does one evolve out of the caveman stage of conversation? Easy: Just talk.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, William Gaspar, The World Tree",
          "text": "The caveman stage of human existence might have arrived for us after the Flood wiped out almost everybody and everything.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The early or primitive developmental stage."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "caveman stage"
}