单词 | barbarism |
释义 | barbarism /bahr"beuh riz'euhm/, n. 1. a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition. 2. a barbarous act; something belonging to or befitting a barbarous condition. 3. the use in a language of forms or constructions felt by some to be undesirably alien to the established standards of the language. 4. such a form or construction: Some people consider "complected" as a barbarism. [1570-80; < L barbarismus < Gk barbarismós foreign way of speaking. See BARBAROUS, -ISM] |
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