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barbarianbar‧bar‧i‧an /bɑːˈbeəriən $ bɑːrˈber-/ noun [countable]  barbarianOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French barbarien, from Latin barbarus; ➔ BARBAROUS - His friends are a bunch of barbarians - they don't even wash their hands before they eat.
- The barbarians conquered Rome.
- A quick end, rather than torture and rape at the hands of those barbarians in the hall.
- He was not the man to deny the Romans access to the wealth of the barbarians.
- Is Gates the barbarian at the gates of the banks?
- It has often been noted that while barbarians fight with hatchets, civilised men fight with gossip.
- Next day the barbarians strove with no better success.
- Other poets celebrated the victories of the Seleucids and of the Attalids against the same barbarians.
- We have brought the barbarian across the Rhine in order to help defend our frontiers.
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