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BARBARIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Synonyms:
barbarian; boor; churl; Goth; peasant; tike; tyke
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("barbarian" is a kind of...):
disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)
Derivation:
barbarian (without civilizing influences)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of an uncivilized people
Synonyms:
barbarian; savage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("barbarian" is a kind of...):
primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barbarian"):
anthropophagite; anthropophagus; cannibal; man-eater (a person who eats human flesh)
head-shrinker; headhunter (a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies)
hunter-gatherer (a member of a hunting and gathering society)
Vandal (a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455)
Instance hyponyms:
Odoacer; Odovacar; Odovakar (Germanic barbarian leader who ended the Western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493))
Derivation:
barbarian (without civilizing influences)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without civilizing influences
Example:
wild tribes
Synonyms:
barbarian; barbaric; savage; uncivilised; uncivilized; wild
Classified under:
Similar:
noncivilised; noncivilized (not having a high state of culture and social development)
Derivation:
barbarian (a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement)
barbarian (a member of an uncivilized people)
