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Webster 1913 Edition


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.
1 Cor. xiv. 11.
2.
A man in a rude, savage, or uncivilized state.
3.
A person destitute of culture.
M. Arnold.
4.
A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
“Thou fell barbarian.”
Philips.

Bar-ba′ri-an

,
Adj.
Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous;
as,
barbarian
governments or nations
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Barbarian

BARBA'RIAN

,
Noun.
[L. barbarus;. The sense is, foreign, wild, fierce.]
1.
A man in his rude, savage state; an uncivilized person.
2.
A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
3.
A foreigner. The Greeks and Romans denominated most foreign nations barbarians; and many of these were less civilized than themselves, or unacquainted with their language, laws and manners. But with them,the word was less reproachful than with us.

BARBA'RIAN

,
Adj.
Belonging to savages; rude; uncivilized.
2.
Cruel; inhuman.
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Definition 2024


barbarían

barbarían

See also: barbarian

Spanish

Verb

barbarían

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) conditional form of barbar.
  2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) conditional form of barbar.