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semibarbarian

semibarbarian noun: someone partly civilized.

Noun

semibarbarian (plural semibarbarians)

  1. (dated) Someone partly civilized.
    • The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country...1848, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, in Manifesto of the Communist Party

Forms of semibarbarian

pluralsemibarbarians

Origin of semibarbarian

From semi- + barbarian.

Questions about semibarbarian

What does semibarbarian mean?
Semibarbarian means someone partly civilized.
What part of speech is semibarbarian?
Semibarbarian is a noun.
What is the plural of semibarbarian?
The plural of semibarbarian is semibarbarians.

Words near semibarbarian in the dictionary

  1. semiauxiliary
  2. semiaxes
  3. semiaxis
  4. semibald
  5. semiballistic
  6. semibarbarian
  7. semibarbarianism
  8. semibarbarians
  9. semibarbaric
  10. semibarbarism
  11. semibarbarous

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