Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tarzan

2 senses of tarzan

Sense 1
Tarzan -- ((sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs))
       => man, adult male -- (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus")

Sense 2
Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes -- (a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
       INSTANCE OF=> fictional character, fictitious character, character -- (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel")