Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
The Romans called all tribes-people who lived outside the Empire barbarians. According to the Romans they were "uncivilised", because they did not speak Latin or Greek.
a non-Greek; to the Greeks, foreigners who did not speak Greek were barbarian
term used by Greeks for non-Greeks.
A Greek word used by the Romans to describe any foreign tribe who had not been Romanised
A Greek word adopted by the Romans to refer to any people who did not adopt the Roman way of life. It is said to have come originally from the sound bar-bar, which, according to the Greeks, was supposed to be the noise that people made when speaking foreign languages.
a member of an uncivilized people
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"
a ferocious warrior, typically hailing from an uncivilized area of a campaign world
a man who believes the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature
a satire on the Roman world as seen through the eyes of a Twentieth Century man
At the height of the Roman Empire, Romans looked at everyone outside their domain as strange and uncivilized foreigners.
someone from an uncivilised tribe; often used to describe cruel or rough people without any manners
a name given by the Romans to all peoples living outside the frontiers of the Roman Empire (except the Persians). (p. 207)
"Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized, uncultured person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, insensitive person whose behaviour is unacceptable in the purportedly civilized society of the speaker. While the latter sense is always pejorative, the former one has not invariably been so, as described below.