0 a person who lives in a cave, especially a person who lived in a cave in prehistoric times (= the period before there were written records):
Most people associate troglodytes with prehistoric times, but troglodyte communities still exist in Tunisia and China.
He urged the minister not to be slowed down in any way by the reactionary troglodyte forces in all parties who opposed reform.
The Horites, their predecessors in Mount Seir, were troglodytes or dwellers in caves.
She has been working away down here in this cramped room like a troglodyte for 16 years, never seeing the daylight.
I think he says this because he is an illiterate troglodyte, with minimal if any understanding of females.
He said that he was a reform conservative and we were troglodytes stuck 20 years in the past.
Rather than a vision of technical marvels, he sees an urban ruin, an atavistic space inhabited by people whose lives are little better than those of troglodytes.
But what about pan troglodytes (satyrus) just below it, which is a chimpanzee?
I sincerely hope that this debate will fortify him in his struggle against monetary troglodytes.
I would not have believed that any troglodytes so deep in the cave remained in the world as were revealed by that document.
