Definitions for Barbarian

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Barbarian bar·bar·i·an

Spelling: [bahr-bair-ee-uh n]

IPA: /bɑrˈbɛər i ən/

Barbarian is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in Barbarian (aaabbinrr).

Definitions for Barbarian

noun

1. a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person.
2. a person without culture, refinement, or education; philistine.
3. (loosely) a foreigner.
4. a non-Greek. a person living outside, especially north of, the Roman Empire. a person not living in a Christian country or within a Christian civilization.
5. (among Italians during the Renaissance) a person of non-Italian origin.

adjective

1. uncivilized; crude; savage.
2. foreign; alien.

Origin of Barbarian

1540-50; Latin barbari(a) barbarous country (see barbarous, -ia) + -an

Examples for Barbarian

It's a heap onadvisable when addressin' us to overwork that word "barbarian."

I wrote my first book listening to the soundtrack to the movie Conan the barbarian on a loop.

How could you be such a barbarian as to see the head of a man cut off?

Almost every barbarian at the table had made his own fortune.

Instead of thinking of a sharp distinction between "Roman" and "barbarian," we should think in terms of economic zones.

Lastly, Levy objects to my occasional use, in the past, of the word "barbarian".

Morris has said that “the Arab world as it is today is barbarian.”

The intelligence and facilities of Government are but one step above the barbarian.

I am a Prince of Naples, and I'll not bend the knee to a barbarian.

What can explain Morris's insistence in continuing to describe whole cultures and societies as "barbarian"?