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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. without civilizing influences;
- Example: "barbarian invaders"
- Example: "barbaric practices"
- Example: "a savage people"
- Example: "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade
- Example: "wild tribes"
[syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Barbarian \Bar*ba"ri*an\, n. [See Barbarous.] [1913 Webster] 1. A foreigner. [Historical] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A man in a rude, savage, or uncivilized state. [1913 Webster] 3. A person destitute of culture. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] 4. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. "Thou fell barbarian." --Philips. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]
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, yahoo
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.