Definition of cannibal noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cannibal

noun

/ˈkænɪbl/

a person who eats other people

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an animal that eats other animals of the same kind

Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Spanish Canibales (plural), variant (recorded by Columbus) of Caribes, the name of a West Indian people reputed to eat humans.

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