[ UK /bɑːbˈe‍əɹi‍ən/ ]
[ US /bɑɹˈbɛɹiən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
  2. a member of an uncivilized people
ADJECTIVE
  1. without civilizing influences
    fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient
    a savage people
    barbarian invaders
    wild tribes
    barbaric practices
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How To Use barbarian In A Sentence

  • As to the pay of the Mercenaries it nearly filled two esparto-grass baskets; there were even visible in one of them some of the leathern discs which the Republic used to economise its specie; and as the Barbarians appeared greatly surprised, Hanno told them that, their accounts being very difficult, the Ancients had not had leisure to examine them. Salammbo
  • Texans were more or less thought of as yahoo barbarians somewhere between the Beverly Hillbillies and Deliverance.
  • Years ago we were more provincial even than now as, for instance, a certain Englishman, who wrote, while living in a small French town in 1813 these barbarians make fun of me everywhere just because I am properly dressed and speak the language of a human being. The Yankee Myth
  • Out goes the barbarian; in comes the caring, sharing new man. Times, Sunday Times
  • If this is a clash of civilizations, then one of our soldiers has just been murdered by our barbarian enemies.
  • Thoas rules [8] the land, o'er barbarians, [Thoas,] who guiding his foot swift as the pinion, has arrived at this epithet [of Thoas, i.e. _the swift_] on account of his fleetness of foot. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
  • This establishment was severely damaged by flooding at the end of the second century and rebuilt in much the same form, only to be slighted during the barbarian incursions of AD 276.
  • The walled city was attacked by barbarian hordes.
  • The king's persistency in begging her not to veil so austerely a face which the gods had made for the admiration of men, his evident vexation upon her refusal to appear in Greek costume at the sacrifices and public solemnities, his unsparing raillery at what he termed her barbarian shyness, all tended to convince her that the young King Candaules
  • The Kalachakra tantra talks about a time when the three lalos, the barbarian kings, will rule the earth.
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