Barbarian: Definition and part of speech

Barbarian

  1. a. Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
  2. n. A foreigner.
  3. n. A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
  4. n. A person destitute of culture.
  5. n. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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