Meaning

noun a member of an uncivilized people

noun a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

adjective without civilizing influences; ; ; ; -Margaret Meade

originFrom Middle English barbarian, borrowed from Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, foreigner”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”), from barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”), possibly onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to English blah blah). Cognate to Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian, non-Aryan,…

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