BARBARIAN

n. a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

A person destitute of culture. M. Arnold.

4.
n.

A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. "Thou fell barbarian." Philips.

5.
a.

Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.


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