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Definition of barbarian in English: barbariannoun bɑːˈbɛːrɪənˌbɑrˈbɛriən 1(in ancient times) a member of a people not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian) the city was besieged by the barbarians Example sentencesExamples - That is, it is Moira that determines who shall be slave or master, peasant or warrior, citizen or non-citizen, Greek or barbarian.
- Hadrian, we are informed by his fourth-century biographer, built his wall to divide the Romans from the barbarians.
- It was predicated on the idea of an inherent superiority of the Greek over the barbarian.
- Their background was probably very varied, some perhaps landowners, others military men, Roman or barbarian, who had been invited to take control or seized power.
- For the next five millennia McNeill observes a sharp spatial distinction between barbarians and civilized communities.
- Raised on the hinge of the Greek and the barbarian (non-Greek) world, he had the amused tolerance of a man who can see and has lived with both sides.
- As the barbarians invaded, they often took over the old Roman provincial titles, so that Roman authority continued in a new guise.
- Barbarians, or rather some barbarians in the eyes of some Greeks, did not need images at all.
- They did not so much beat the barbarians as the mere appearance of Roman legions caused the invaders to withdraw.
- The ancient Romans divided people between civilised and barbarian.
- It might be because purists realized they were a small group of Roman centurions and the barbarians were at the gates.
- Moreover, some of the Greek cities thought they could use the barbarian, or the threat of him, against their enemies.
- His main historical significance is his acceleration of the settlement of barbarians on Roman territory.
- Although the Roman aristocrats despised the barbarians, many also believed that they could use them to their own purposes.
- His decision to build a wall separating Roman Britain from the barbarians beyond symbolised that the empire had stopped growing.
- Others were happy to see Philip as a Greek, and as a man who could restore Greece to a position in which it could face the real barbarians, and in particular the Persians.
- It was arrogant pretension of the ancient Greeks to imagine that barbarians were slaves by nature.
- 1.1 An uncultured or brutish person.
Example sentencesExamples - It has become very fashionable in the middle reaches of government to beat up on the Americans as being uncultured barbarians.
- What happens when the barbarians, the grand ignorant, never appear and so cannot be defeated or contained?
- The rampant crowds were like ancient Viking barbarians, smoking heavily and taking down alcohol in large gulps.
- Northern newspapers, in contrast, condemned Brooks as an unrestrained barbarian who, like the South as a whole, represented brutality and threatened to destroy the fabric of the nation.
- Here was someone who was prepared to wave two fingers at those American barbarians who were filling French kids with burgers.
- The use to which the wealth is put, and Jahangir's almost flippant attitude toward his riches, activates the notion of the ignorant barbarian.
- Wine and bread, because they were created by man, were symbols of cultured living - only barbarians ate wild plants.
- For here on, I will consider anyone consorting with these barbarians to be my enemy.
- Ever since we'd been kidnapped by the barbarians, she had changed, and it hadn't been subtle.
- The arrogant barbarians were again shown that they could never defeat The Chosen People.
- From her experience in the east she regarded the Russians as barbarians, unused to the basic norms of civilised life.
- All think of him as a cold-hearted, arrogant barbarian, and this story will be the first true view of the hidden soul he carries.
- What distinguishes civilized man from a barbarian must be acquired by every individual anew.
- People who support capital punishment are often portrayed as barbarians or monsters, but in my opinion locking someone up for life is far more inhumane.
- Only barbarians, he argued, would execute a man based upon this quality of testimony.
- They usually portray American military personnel as barbarians with no respect for human life.
- Texans were more or less thought of as yahoo barbarians somewhere between the Beverly Hillbillies and Deliverance.
Synonyms savage, brute, beast, wild man/woman, troglodyte ruffian, lout, thug, vandal, hoodlum, hooligan, rowdy boor, oaf, ignoramus, philistine, vulgarian, yahoo informal clod, clodhopper, roughneck British informal yobbo, yob, lager lout, oik Australian/New Zealand informal hoon
adjective bɑːˈbɛːrɪənˌbɑrˈbɛriən 1Relating to ancient barbarians. Example sentencesExamples - This promising line of thought takes us back to the barbarian invasions that overwhelmed Rome in the 5th century.
- In the face of continuing barbarian invasions, the smaller landowners were driven to seek protection and maintenance from more powerful men in return for which they gave service and obedience.
- These remarks record the preeminent level of struggle against the loss of civilization brought on by the invasion of the barbarian hordes of Western Europe.
- He explains that, as the screws were tightened upon them, the mass of the population had little or no incentive to resist the barbarian invasions that came with increasing force.
- If this is a clash of civilizations, then one of our soldiers has just been murdered by our barbarian enemies.
- Manchester United tours are not just a series of football matches but are events which resemble a call for a religious crusade or a barbarian invasion.
- In the West, however, Diocletian's system worked for a time, but then fell apart in the face of the barbarian invasions.
- Be that as it may, after the barbarian invasion there was no authority to re-introduce gold coinage that would circulate.
- The town suffered grievously during the barbarian invasions and it did not recover until the Middle Ages, when it took its present form, that of a fortified medieval settlement round a strong castle.
- Torsion catapults continued to be built into the time of the barbarian invasions when they were superseded by a traction artillery piece, the trebuchet.
- Positive or negative, all these barbarian invasions are there, and we must live with this.
- Arles, once the capital of Roman Gaul, declined after the barbarian invasions and experienced a political and economic revival in the 12 th century.
- The early medieval chapter adopts the by-now-commonplace position that the history of Europe after the fall of Rome and the barbarian invasions was one of progress.
- Jordanes, who wrote in Constantinople in the 550s, even described the coup of 476 as if it had been a fully-fledged barbarian invasion.
- And maybe that date will be viewed in future centuries as the beginning of the great barbarian invasions.
- The site adds weight to the theory that Spain was a haven of Roman peace and prosperity during the fourth century, while the rest of the empire suffered political instability and barbarian invasions.
- Europe took refuge in a feudal system in the face of increasing barbarian invasion.
- A process of urbanization was under way - a process which the Romans had to abandon in the 3rd century under the pressures of barbarian invasion.
- In 276 the towns of Gaul were still unwalled when, as a literary source tells us, the worst of the barbarian invasions yet saw the capture of fifty or sixty towns and their retaking by the Romans.
- But that attaches all of the barbarian interlude to ancient history, which is counter to our usual notions.
Synonyms atheistic, unbelieving, non-believing, non-theistic, agnostic, sceptical, heretical, faithless, godless, ungodly, unholy, impious, profane, infidel, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, pagan - 1.1 Uncultured; brutish.
Example sentencesExamples - In their wild and alien nature, these animals were the embodiment of all that was uncivilized and, therefore, of barbarian irrationality and evil.
- The EU, in stern response to today's barbarian terror bombing in Jerusalem, has decided to start giving money again to the Palestinian Authority.
- Despite being written for a barbarian reed pipe, Ts'ai Yen's songs can still be sung on Chinese instruments.
- The supervisory board of the Bulgarian National Bank was a straight jacket for the elite, which drained the financial system in a pagan and barbarian way.
- And if we do not do something, these barbarian rodents are bound to take over our lives!
- What is the barbarian fascination with airplanes?
- A barbarian dictator who stares down the US can lead a region to war, terrorism, and oppression on a global scale.
- Today, a message from an Internet café could have confirmed the barbarian incursions were nightmares come true.
- But to the mindset of today's European leaders and commentators, America is a barbarian nation intent on world domination.
- Terminal illness makes a fantastic, fun-filled irreverent backdrop for black comedy, exploding with comments on humankind's barbarian invasion of the planet.
- It is an uneasy opening, as we watch Monroe have to shed his civility and have to regress: his modern nature being slowly eroded by the barbarian surroundings.
- We lost several thousand to barbarian attacks.
- Roy is a true original, a barbarian living in a modern world, and relentlessly smashing everything in his path.
- Democratic processes can do nothing to assuage the homicidal needs of barbarian madmen.
- I am shocked and dismayed to learn that our neighbors to the north have government officials who play politics just like ours do down here in the barbarian south.
- Suddenly, all the networks want drama again and the barbarian tide of reality tele-vision is in retreat.
- The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.
- ‘[The anti-secession law] is barbarian and invasive behavior,’ Lee said.
Synonyms savage, uncivilized, barbaric, barbarous, primitive, heathen, wild, brutish, Neanderthal thuggish, loutish, uncouth, coarse, rough, boorish, oafish, vulgar, gross, philistine, uneducated, uncultured, uncultivated, benighted, unsophisticated, unrefined, unpolished, ill-bred, ill-mannered informal yobbish archaic rude
Derivatives noun The majority of hip listeners in the pre-punk period weren't pining for the back-to-basics barbarianism of the Pistols, they were quite contentedly listening to a diffuse, eclectic array of "progressive" music. Example sentencesExamples - If this barbarianism continues we will be compelled to defend the defenceless, and the best way of defence is to attack first.
- We are endowed by our Creator with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and to the extent that we choose wrong, we yield to the evil and unholy forces of barbarianism.
- The incident was neither a confrontation between nations nor one between civilization and barbarianism, but a fight between goodness and evil.
- "When people feel that they are the product of some accident and not the intended creation of God, they are filled with a sense of hopelessness and there is an almost pagan barbarianism in the way some people would act," Mr. Wright said.
Origin Middle English (as an adjective used in a derogatory way to denote a person with different speech and customs): from Old French barbarien, from barbare, or from Latin barbarus (see barbarous). The ancient Greeks had a high opinion of themselves and a correspondingly low one of other peoples. They called everyone who did not speak Greek barbaros or ‘foreign’, which is where we get barbarian and related words barbaric (Late Middle English), barbarity (late 17th century), and barbarous (early 16th century). The word barbaros originally imitated the unintelligible language of foreigners, which to the Greeks just sounded like ba, ba, ba.
Rhymes agrarian, antiquarian, apiarian, Aquarian, Arian, Aryan, authoritarian, Bavarian, Bulgarian, Caesarean (US Cesarean), centenarian, communitarian, contrarian, Darien, disciplinarian, egalitarian, equalitarian, establishmentarian, fruitarian, Gibraltarian, grammarian, Hanoverian, humanitarian, Hungarian, latitudinarian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, millenarian, necessarian, necessitarian, nonagenarian, octogenarian, ovarian, Parian, parliamentarian, planarian, predestinarian, prelapsarian, proletarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, quodlibetarian, Rastafarian, riparian, rosarian, Rotarian, sabbatarian, Sagittarian, sanitarian, Sauveterrian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, topiarian, totalitarian, Trinitarian, ubiquitarian, Unitarian, utilitarian, valetudinarian, vegetarian, veterinarian, vulgarian Definition of barbarian in US English: barbariannounˌbɑrˈbɛriənˌbärˈberēən 1(in ancient times) a member of a community or tribe not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian). Example sentencesExamples - That is, it is Moira that determines who shall be slave or master, peasant or warrior, citizen or non-citizen, Greek or barbarian.
- Hadrian, we are informed by his fourth-century biographer, built his wall to divide the Romans from the barbarians.
- His main historical significance is his acceleration of the settlement of barbarians on Roman territory.
- Although the Roman aristocrats despised the barbarians, many also believed that they could use them to their own purposes.
- Others were happy to see Philip as a Greek, and as a man who could restore Greece to a position in which it could face the real barbarians, and in particular the Persians.
- Their background was probably very varied, some perhaps landowners, others military men, Roman or barbarian, who had been invited to take control or seized power.
- The ancient Romans divided people between civilised and barbarian.
- It was predicated on the idea of an inherent superiority of the Greek over the barbarian.
- It was arrogant pretension of the ancient Greeks to imagine that barbarians were slaves by nature.
- Barbarians, or rather some barbarians in the eyes of some Greeks, did not need images at all.
- For the next five millennia McNeill observes a sharp spatial distinction between barbarians and civilized communities.
- As the barbarians invaded, they often took over the old Roman provincial titles, so that Roman authority continued in a new guise.
- His decision to build a wall separating Roman Britain from the barbarians beyond symbolised that the empire had stopped growing.
- Raised on the hinge of the Greek and the barbarian (non-Greek) world, he had the amused tolerance of a man who can see and has lived with both sides.
- They did not so much beat the barbarians as the mere appearance of Roman legions caused the invaders to withdraw.
- It might be because purists realized they were a small group of Roman centurions and the barbarians were at the gates.
- Moreover, some of the Greek cities thought they could use the barbarian, or the threat of him, against their enemies.
- 1.1 An uncultured or brutish person.
Example sentencesExamples - Wine and bread, because they were created by man, were symbols of cultured living - only barbarians ate wild plants.
- Here was someone who was prepared to wave two fingers at those American barbarians who were filling French kids with burgers.
- All think of him as a cold-hearted, arrogant barbarian, and this story will be the first true view of the hidden soul he carries.
- The use to which the wealth is put, and Jahangir's almost flippant attitude toward his riches, activates the notion of the ignorant barbarian.
- What happens when the barbarians, the grand ignorant, never appear and so cannot be defeated or contained?
- Northern newspapers, in contrast, condemned Brooks as an unrestrained barbarian who, like the South as a whole, represented brutality and threatened to destroy the fabric of the nation.
- The arrogant barbarians were again shown that they could never defeat The Chosen People.
- People who support capital punishment are often portrayed as barbarians or monsters, but in my opinion locking someone up for life is far more inhumane.
- From her experience in the east she regarded the Russians as barbarians, unused to the basic norms of civilised life.
- Texans were more or less thought of as yahoo barbarians somewhere between the Beverly Hillbillies and Deliverance.
- It has become very fashionable in the middle reaches of government to beat up on the Americans as being uncultured barbarians.
- Only barbarians, he argued, would execute a man based upon this quality of testimony.
- What distinguishes civilized man from a barbarian must be acquired by every individual anew.
- The rampant crowds were like ancient Viking barbarians, smoking heavily and taking down alcohol in large gulps.
- They usually portray American military personnel as barbarians with no respect for human life.
- Ever since we'd been kidnapped by the barbarians, she had changed, and it hadn't been subtle.
- For here on, I will consider anyone consorting with these barbarians to be my enemy.
Synonyms savage, brute, beast, wild man, wild woman, troglodyte
adjectiveˌbɑrˈbɛriənˌbärˈberēən 1Relating to ancient barbarians. Example sentencesExamples - The town suffered grievously during the barbarian invasions and it did not recover until the Middle Ages, when it took its present form, that of a fortified medieval settlement round a strong castle.
- In the face of continuing barbarian invasions, the smaller landowners were driven to seek protection and maintenance from more powerful men in return for which they gave service and obedience.
- If this is a clash of civilizations, then one of our soldiers has just been murdered by our barbarian enemies.
- He explains that, as the screws were tightened upon them, the mass of the population had little or no incentive to resist the barbarian invasions that came with increasing force.
- But that attaches all of the barbarian interlude to ancient history, which is counter to our usual notions.
- Arles, once the capital of Roman Gaul, declined after the barbarian invasions and experienced a political and economic revival in the 12 th century.
- These remarks record the preeminent level of struggle against the loss of civilization brought on by the invasion of the barbarian hordes of Western Europe.
- Be that as it may, after the barbarian invasion there was no authority to re-introduce gold coinage that would circulate.
- Jordanes, who wrote in Constantinople in the 550s, even described the coup of 476 as if it had been a fully-fledged barbarian invasion.
- Manchester United tours are not just a series of football matches but are events which resemble a call for a religious crusade or a barbarian invasion.
- This promising line of thought takes us back to the barbarian invasions that overwhelmed Rome in the 5th century.
- And maybe that date will be viewed in future centuries as the beginning of the great barbarian invasions.
- The early medieval chapter adopts the by-now-commonplace position that the history of Europe after the fall of Rome and the barbarian invasions was one of progress.
- In 276 the towns of Gaul were still unwalled when, as a literary source tells us, the worst of the barbarian invasions yet saw the capture of fifty or sixty towns and their retaking by the Romans.
- Europe took refuge in a feudal system in the face of increasing barbarian invasion.
- Torsion catapults continued to be built into the time of the barbarian invasions when they were superseded by a traction artillery piece, the trebuchet.
- The site adds weight to the theory that Spain was a haven of Roman peace and prosperity during the fourth century, while the rest of the empire suffered political instability and barbarian invasions.
- In the West, however, Diocletian's system worked for a time, but then fell apart in the face of the barbarian invasions.
- A process of urbanization was under way - a process which the Romans had to abandon in the 3rd century under the pressures of barbarian invasion.
- Positive or negative, all these barbarian invasions are there, and we must live with this.
Synonyms atheistic, unbelieving, non-believing, non-theistic, agnostic, sceptical, heretical, faithless, godless, ungodly, unholy, impious, profane, infidel, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, pagan - 1.1 Uncultured; brutish.
Example sentencesExamples - Despite being written for a barbarian reed pipe, Ts'ai Yen's songs can still be sung on Chinese instruments.
- Roy is a true original, a barbarian living in a modern world, and relentlessly smashing everything in his path.
- Terminal illness makes a fantastic, fun-filled irreverent backdrop for black comedy, exploding with comments on humankind's barbarian invasion of the planet.
- It is an uneasy opening, as we watch Monroe have to shed his civility and have to regress: his modern nature being slowly eroded by the barbarian surroundings.
- Suddenly, all the networks want drama again and the barbarian tide of reality tele-vision is in retreat.
- But to the mindset of today's European leaders and commentators, America is a barbarian nation intent on world domination.
- The supervisory board of the Bulgarian National Bank was a straight jacket for the elite, which drained the financial system in a pagan and barbarian way.
- A barbarian dictator who stares down the US can lead a region to war, terrorism, and oppression on a global scale.
- Today, a message from an Internet café could have confirmed the barbarian incursions were nightmares come true.
- I am shocked and dismayed to learn that our neighbors to the north have government officials who play politics just like ours do down here in the barbarian south.
- The EU, in stern response to today's barbarian terror bombing in Jerusalem, has decided to start giving money again to the Palestinian Authority.
- In their wild and alien nature, these animals were the embodiment of all that was uncivilized and, therefore, of barbarian irrationality and evil.
- What is the barbarian fascination with airplanes?
- Democratic processes can do nothing to assuage the homicidal needs of barbarian madmen.
- The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.
- ‘[The anti-secession law] is barbarian and invasive behavior,’ Lee said.
- We lost several thousand to barbarian attacks.
- And if we do not do something, these barbarian rodents are bound to take over our lives!
Synonyms savage, uncivilized, barbaric, barbarous, primitive, heathen, wild, brutish, neanderthal
Origin Middle English (as an adjective used in a derogatory way to denote a person with different speech and customs): from Old French barbarien, from barbare, or from Latin barbarus (see barbarous). |