Usually means: Uncivilized person from outside civilization.
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  1. barbarian: Merriam-Webster
  2. barbarian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barbarian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barbarian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barbarian: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barbarian, barbarian: Wordnik
  7. barbarian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. barbarian: Wiktionary
  9. barbarian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. barbarian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. barbarian: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Barbarian, barbarian: Dictionary.com
  13. barbarian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. barbarian: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Barbarian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. barbarian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. barbarian: Rhymezone
  19. barbarian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. barbarian: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. barbarian: FreeDictionary.org
  22. barbarian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. barbarian: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Barbarian: World Wide Words
  25. barbarian: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. barbarian: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. barbarian: Legal dictionary

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  1. barbarian: Encyclopedia

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  1. Barbarian: Whonamedit.com

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Barbarian: Easton Bible
  2. Barbarian: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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  1. Barbarian, Barbarian, the barbarian: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See barbarianism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Relating to people, countries, or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
noun:  (historical) A non-Greek or a non-Roman citizen.
noun:  An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; usually associated with senseless violence and self-harm or other such shows of brute force and lack of mental faculty.
noun:  (derogatory) A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
noun:  (derogatory) Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
noun:  A brutish warrior depicted in sword and sorcery and other fantasy works; typically clad in primitive furs or leather and usually favoring physical strength over intelligence while often possessing a bellicose temperament and disdain for laws.
noun:  (derogatory) A cruel, savage, inhumane, brutal, violently aggressive person, particularly one who is unintelligent or dim-witted; one without pity or empathy.
noun:  (derogatory) A foreigner, especially with barbaric qualities as in the above definitions.

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