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Look up: Barbarian

  1. Barbarian
    term used by Greeks for non-Greeks.
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  2. Barbarian
    A person who lived outside the Roman Empire, seen as having a violent nature.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  3. barbarian
    [adj] - without civilizing influences
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. barbarian
    Term applied by the ancient Greeks to people who did not speak their language (`bar, bar` represents the unintelligible sound of a foreign language). The term gradually ceased to apply to...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  5. barbarian
    (barbarus) A word developed by the Greeks to describe those people who could not speek Greek and so could only say bar-bar-bar. At a later date, a barbarian was considered by the Romans to be a person who lived outside the Empire and who had not been Romanised and was thus seen as having a violent nature. Some of the important tribes were: - the An…
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  6. Barbarian
    Bar·ba'ri·an noun [ See Barbarous .] 1. A foreigner. [ Historical] « 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...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/13

  7. Barbarian
    Bar·ba'ri·an adjective Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/13

  8. barbarian
    barbaric adjective 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`
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  9. barbarian
    churl noun a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
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  10. Barbarian
    • (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state. • (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. • (n.) A foreigner. • (n.) A person destitute of culture. • (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, ba...
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  11. barbarian
    (from the article `Scholasticism`) It was a decisive and astonishing fact that the so-called barbarian peoples who penetrated from the north into the ancient world often became ... ...spread steadily, so that by the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan ( 98–117) there was a continuous band of civilized societies from Britain to the .....
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/20

  12. barbarian
    barbarian (bar BAIR ee uhn) From Greek barbaros, 'non-Hellenic'; hence, 'foreign, rude'. 1. Savage, alien, outlander: 'The city barricaded itself against the invading barbarians.' 2. Hoodlum, roughneck, rowdy, tough, punk, hooligan, vandal, bully: 'Young barbarians have defaced public buildings throughout the city.' 3. Anti-intellectual, low...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. barbarian
    barbarian, barbaryn (older spelling) 1. Etymologically, a foreigner, one whose language and customs differ from the speaker's. 2. Historically: one who is not a Greek; then one living outside the pale of the Roman empire and its civilization, applied especially to the northern nations that overthrew...
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  14. Barbarian
    HMS Barbarian was a British Barricade Class boom defence vessel of 730 tons displacement launched in 1937. HMS Barbarian had a top speed of 11.75 knots and carried a complement of 32. She was armed with a 3-inch anti-aircraft gun.
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  15. barbarian
    • a member of an uncivilized people
    • a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

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  16. Barbarian
    Barbarian (from the Greek, barbaros), was a name given by the Greeks, and afterwards by the Romans, to every one who spoke an unintelligible language; and hence coming to connote the idea of rude, illiterate, uncivilized. This word, therefore, did not always convey the idea of something odious or sa...
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  17. Barbarian
    :For the equivalent concept in Chinese culture see Hua-Yi distinction. `Barbarian` and `Savage` are pejorative terms used to refer to a person who is perceived to be uncivilized. The word is often used either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal ...
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  18. Barbarian
    (disambiguation) A `barbarian` is an uncivilized or uncultured person, from the Latin and Ancient Greek terms originally applied to any foreigner. The term is used both in `Western cultures` and in `East Asian cultures`. The word may also refer to: In `sports`: In `games`: `Films`: `Other`:
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  19. Barbarian
    (Titus) `Barbarian` is a video game of the fighting genre. The Gamecube version was originally planned for a US release in 2003, but was instead released in Japan (under the name `Warrior Blade`), and in Europe in 2004. The game features 11 different fighters, each with differen...
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  20. Barbarian
    (Dungeons & Dragons) The `barbarian` is a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Publication history: Creative origins: The barbarian is based on Robert E. Howard`s Conan the Barbarian, Gardner Fox`s Kothar and to a lesser extent Fritz Lie...
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  21. Barbarian
    (Psygnosis) `Barbarian` is a 1987 computer platform game by Psygnosis. It was first developed for the Atari ST, but eventually ported to other popular platforms of the home computer era. Like most early Psygnosis titles, the cover artwork (part of "Red Dragon" figure/landscap...
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13 February 2012

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