Definitions for: Barbarian

[n] a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
[n] a member of an uncivilized people
[adj] without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"

Webster (1913) Definition: Bar*ba"ri*an, n. [See Barbarous.]
1. A foreigner. [Historical]

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I
shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he
that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. --? Cor.
xiv. 11.

2. A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.

3. A person destitute of culture. --M. Arnold.

4. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or
humanity. ``Thou fell barbarian.'' --Philips.

Bar*ba"ri*an, a.
Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude;
uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.

Synonyms: barbaric, boor, churl, Goth, noncivilised, noncivilized, peasant, savage, savage, tike, tyke, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild

See Also: anthropophagite, anthropophagus, cannibal, disagreeable person, headhunter, head-shrinker, hunter-gatherer, man-eater, Odoacer, Odovacar, Odovakar, primitive, primitive person, unpleasant person, Vandal

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