[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cannibal.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / cannibal

[← C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/C/)

# cannibal

«cannibal» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or creature that eats other people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cannibals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cannibal is a person or creature that eats other people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cannibal/#m1)

2) In fairy tales a cannibal is a giant, goblin or princess who eats human flesh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cannibal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a wicked figure in old tales: a cannibal goblin or princess who wants to eat people; in the lessons the cannibal is the villain of the story

### examples

- The hungry giant was a cannibal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cannibal/#x1)
- The cannibal goblin lived in a dark cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cannibal/#x2)
- The cannibal princess wanted to eat the boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cannibal/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cannibal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cannibal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.