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Plural of barbarian

regular plural

The plural of barbarian is barbarians.

Forms of barbarian

Singularbarbarian /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbɛə.ɹi.ən/
Pluralbarbarians
Countablecountable

Barbarians in a sentence

  • Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 503. From the entry Christendom
  • I remember paladins, rangers, druids, barbarians, swordmages and warlords among those.2007 November 24, fabio.mili...@gmail.com, “QUARTA edizione 4th - razze e classi..... Draconici e avanzamento unico”, in…. From the entry swordmage
  • To the Han people, the Khitan were not much more than barbarians.2006 October 13, Grace Glueck, “A Surprising Redoubt of Glittering Prizes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry liao
  • Those doddards couldn’t muster an Imperial Host if Hypat itself had barbarians climbing the First Walls.”2006, E. E. Knight [pseudonym; Eric Frisch], Dragon Avenger (Age of Fire; 2), New York, N.Y.: Roc, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry doddard
  • The barbarians were duodecimated — i.e., one out of every twelve was beheaded.1974, Jean d’Ormesson, The Glory of the Empire, page 298. From the entry duodecimate

Meaning of barbarian

  1. adjective Relating to people, countries, or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
  2. noun A non-Greek or a non-Roman citizen.
  3. noun An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; usually associated with senseless violence and self-harm or other such shows of brute force and lack of mental faculty.

Full definition of barbarian

Questions about the plural of barbarian

What is the plural of barbarian?
The plural of barbarian is barbarians.
Is barbarian countable?
Barbarian is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barbarian (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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