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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Barbarian \Bar*ba"ri*an\, adjective Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
barbarian
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" [syn: {barbaric}, {savage}, {uncivilized}, {uncivilised}, {wild}]
noun
1: a member of an uncivilized people [syn: {savage}]
2: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: {peasant}, {boor}, {churl}, {Goth}, {tyke}, {tike}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "barbarian": Goth, Gothic, Neanderthal, Uitlander, alien, animal, anthropophagite, backward, barbaric, barbarous, beast, bestial, bloodthirsty, boor, boorish, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibal, churl, churlish, clod, coarse, crude, cruel, deracine, destroyer, displaced person, emigre, exile, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, ferocious, foreign, foreign devil, foreign-born, foreigner, graceless, gringo, heathenish, hooligan, hyena, ignoramus, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inhuman, insensitive, intrusive, lout, loutish, lowbrow, man-eater, nihilist, noncivilized, oaf, oafish, outland, outlander, outlandish, outlaw, outside, outsider, philistine, primitive, refugee, rough, rough-and-ready, rude, ruffian, savage, shark, skinhead, strange, stranger, tasteless, the Wandering Jew, tiger, tough, tramontane, troglodyte, troglodytic, ulterior, ultramontane, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unearthly, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, untamed, vandal, vandalic, vulgar, wanderer, wild, wild man, wrecker, yahoo
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Barbarian a Greek word used in the New Testament (Rom. 1:14) to denote one of another nation. In Col. 3:11, the word more definitely designates those nations of the Roman empire that did not speak Greek. In 1 Cor. 14:11, it simply refers to one speaking a different language. The inhabitants of Malta are so called (Acts 28:1,2, 4). They were originally a Carthaginian colony. This word nowhere in Scripture bears the meaning it does in modern times.
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