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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
barbarian
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" [syn: barbaric,
savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]
n 1: a member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage]
2: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or
refinement [syn: peasant, boor, churl, Goth, tyke,
tike]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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,
yahoo
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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