barbarian

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barbarian - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Barbarian \Bar*ba"ri*an\, n. [See Barbarous.]
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     1. A foreigner. [Historical]
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              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. --1 Cor.
                                                    xiv. 11.
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     2. A man in a rude, savage, or uncivilized state.
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     3. A person destitute of culture. --M. Arnold.
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     4. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or
        humanity. "Thou fell barbarian." --Philips.
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  Barbarian \Bar*ba"ri*an\, a.
     Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude;
     uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
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barbarian - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  barbarian
      adj 1: 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" [syn:
             barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized,
             uncivilised, wild]
      n 1: a member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage,
           barbarian]
      2: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
         [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth,
         tyke, tike]

barbarian - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Barbarian
  a Greek word used in the New Testament (Rom. 1:14) to denote one
  of another nation. In Col. 3:11, the word more definitely
  designates those nations of the Roman empire that did not speak
  Greek. In 1 Cor. 14:11, it simply refers to one speaking a
  different language. The inhabitants of Malta are so called (Acts
  28:1,2, 4). They were originally a Carthaginian colony. This
  word nowhere in Scripture bears the meaning it does in modern
  times.

barbarian - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "barbarian":
     Goth, Gothic, Neanderthal, Uitlander, alien, animal,
     anthropophagite, backward, barbaric, barbarous, beast, bestial,
     bloodthirsty, boor, boorish, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibal,
     churl, churlish, clod, coarse, crude, cruel, deracine, destroyer,
     displaced person, emigre, exile, exotic, exterior, external,
     extraneous, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, ferocious, foreign,
     foreign devil, foreign-born, foreigner, graceless, gringo,
     heathenish, hooligan, hyena, ignoramus, ill-bred, ill-mannered,
     impolite, inhuman, insensitive, intrusive, lout, loutish, lowbrow,
     man-eater, nihilist, noncivilized, oaf, oafish, outland, outlander,
     outlandish, outlaw, outside, outsider, philistine, primitive,
     refugee, rough, rough-and-ready, rude, ruffian, savage, shark,
     skinhead, strange, stranger, tasteless, the Wandering Jew, tiger,
     tough, tramontane, troglodyte, troglodytic, ulterior, ultramontane,
     uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured,
     unearthly, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, untamed,
     vandal, vandalic, vulgar, wanderer, wild, wild man, wrecker,
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