Definitions for cannibal

cannibal can·ni·bal

Spelling: [kan-uh-buh l]
IPA: /ˈkæn ə bəl/

Cannibal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in cannibal (aabcilnn).

Definitions for cannibal

noun

  1. a person who eats human flesh, especially for magical or religious purposes, as among certain tribal peoples.
  2. any animal that eats its own kind.

adjective

  1. pertaining to or characteristic of a cannibal.
  2. given to cannibalism.

Origin of cannibal

1545-55; Spanish caníbal, variant of caríbal, equivalent to canib-, carib- (Arawak) + -al -al1; from the belief that the Caribs of the West Indies ate human

Examples for cannibal

The Cosmos as such is cannibal; as old Time ate his children.

The headline: "Three Englishmen Saved From Boiling Pot By cannibal Chief, Who Was Friend at Oxford."

Fellow cops at the 26th Precinct in upper Manhattan wondered if they really had been working with a cannibal.

Amirpour's next project is one she bills as a “Texas cannibal love story.”

And cruder devices certainly deepen the effect of a name; Caliban is a rough anagram of “cannibal,” and Cassio contains an “ass.”

The cannibal Cop may end up being saved by his own sick and shameful words.

"Or 'Youmale,' the Caribbean cannibal of the lake of the Caimans," continued a third.

"But how came you to live among these cannibal demons," asked Raiko.

It may come from a rival—from the buccaneer, the filibuster, or the cannibal.

"Nay, elder, I am not all out a cannibal and ogre," replied the captain.

Word Value for cannibal
Scrable

12

Words with friends

17

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