Associations to the word «Tarzan»

Wiktionary

TARZAN, proper noun. A heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes.
TARZAN, noun. (by extension) A strong man.

Dictionary definition

TARZAN, noun. (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs).
TARZAN, noun. A man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats