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barbarocracy

barbarocracy noun: rule by barbarians.

Noun

barbarocracy (countable and uncountable, plural barbarocracies)

  1. Rule by barbarians.
    • The existing Bavarocracy (the Greeks, who are as fond of puns as ever, used to call it barbarocracy) had become impossible.1846, The Quarterly Review (London), page 314
    • I think that the reader would admit that they are better fitted to live under a constitution than under a barbarocracy, as they called the government of the irresponsible camarilla of Bavaria.1869, Cornelius Conway Felton, Greece, Ancient and Modern

Forms of barbarocracy

pluralbarbarocracies

Origin of barbarocracy

From Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”) + -cracy.

Questions about barbarocracy

What does barbarocracy mean?
Barbarocracy means rule by barbarians.
What part of speech is barbarocracy?
Barbarocracy is a noun.
What is the plural of barbarocracy?
The plural of barbarocracy is barbarocracies.

Words near barbarocracy in the dictionary

  1. barbarized
  2. barbarizes
  3. barbarizing
  4. Barbaro
  5. barbarocracies
  6. barbarocracy
  7. Barbaros
  8. Barbarossa
  9. barbarous
  10. Barbarous Age
  11. barbarouse

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