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单词 barbarian
释义 barbarian
 —barbarianism,  n.  
 /bahr bair"ee euhn/,  n.  
  1. a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person.
  2. a person without culture, refinement, or education; philistine.
  3. (loosely) a foreigner.
  4. (in ancient and medieval periods)
   a. a non-Greek.
   b. a person living outside, esp. north of, the Roman Empire.
   c. a person not living in a Christian country or within a Christian civilization.
  5. (among Italians during the Renaissance) a person of non-Italian origin.
  adj.  
  6. uncivilized; crude; savage.
  7. foreign; alien.
 [1540-50; < L barbari(a) barbarous country (see BARBAROUS, -IA) + -AN]
 Syn. 3. alien. 6. rude, primitive, wild, rough, barbaric, coarse, ignorant, uncultivated. BARBARIAN, BARBARIC, BARBAROUS pertain to uncivilized people. BARBARIAN is the general word for anything uncivilized: a barbarian tribe. BARBARIC has both unfavorable and mildly favorable connotations, implying crudeness of taste or practice, or conveying an idea of rude magnificence and splendor: barbaric noise. BARBAROUS emphasizes the inhumanity and cruelty of barbarian life: barbarous customs.
 Ant. 6. cultivated, civilized.
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