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Definition of Barbarian
Barbarian

A foreigner.

A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.

A person destitute of culture.

A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.

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

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Barbarian Quotations

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
Simon C. Morris

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
Breyten Breytenbach

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
William Gilmore Simms

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
Jack Abramoff

Barbarian Translations

barbarian in Dutch is onmens, barbaar, wreedaard
barbarian in German is Barbar
barbarian in Swedish is barbar

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