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barbarian
 
Adjective barbarian has 1 sense
  1. barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild - 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"
    Antonyms: civilized, civilised (indirect, via noncivilized)
Noun barbarian has 2 senses
  1. savage, barbarian - a member of an uncivilized people
    --1 is a kind of primitive, primitive person
    --1 has particulars:
     cannibal, man-eater, anthropophagus, anthropophagite; headhunter, head-shrinker; hunter-gatherer; Vandal; Odoacer, Odovacar, Odovakar
  2. peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike - a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
    --2 is a kind of unpleasant person, disagreeable person
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