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• My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.From the entry level
• Think The Dying Earth with added barbarian badassery — this is some very superior genre-blending.2010, Richard K. Morgan, The Steel Remains, link. From the entry badassery
• 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
• This, chiefly because of its interdisputes and then because of the barbarian onslaughts on their countries.1987, Salīm Wākīm, Iran, the Arabs, and the West: the story of twenty-five centuries. From the entry interdispute
• He was a mercenary, a sell-sword, a barbarian out of the forested mountains of Norumbria.1977, Gardner Francis Fox, “Shadow of a Demon”, in The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 3, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry sell-sword
• 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
• 'You talk heresy, smoothskin,' the barbarian growled.2018, Michael Moorcock, Barbarians of Mars, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry smoothskin
• He sees in Conan a red-handed, rough-footed barbarian who came out of the north to plunder a civilized land.2014, Robert E. Howard, The Phoenix on the Sword, →ISBN. From the entry red-handed
• Theoderic's life conventionally takes up part of the history of the barbarian invasions of Europe, the Völkerwanderung or “migration of peoples.”2011, James J. O'Donnell, The Ruin of the Roman Empire, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry Barbarian Invasions
• On the contrary, it is a kind of paleologism, a primitive signifier, "a word from a barbarian time."2006, Philippe Roger as, translated by Sharon Bowman, The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism, →ISBN, page 252. From the entry paleologism
• As for those who speak Ersu, Guiqlong, and Namuyl, they used to be called, pejoratively, "Xifan" (western barbarians).1989, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, volumes 12-13, page 27. From the entry Ersu
• Secondly, in terms of geopolitics Central Asia was a huge sea of barbarians set in the midst of interlocking continents.1980, Patria Crone, Slaves on Horseback: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN. From the entry sea
• When the challenge of the barbarians finally came , Rome had to pay Danegeld to buy off the marauders.1963, Max Lerner, America as a Civilization: Culture and personality. From the entry danegeld
• You are very friendly with these barbarians.1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 6, page 151, ¶ 6. From the entry weazened
• What Ghaznavi had considered animal intuition or some sixth sense was merely the razor-edged faculties and savage wit of the barbarian.1934 August, Robert E. Howard, The Devil in Iron, Chapter IV, published in Weird Tales. From the entry sixth sense
• With them the gods were confederated to break barbarian arrogance.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 89. From the entry confederate
• Even after a century of barbarian rule in Africa or Italy, a Roman intellectual classed kings and elites according to barbarian groupings.R. Steinacher, ‘Who is the Barbarian? Considerations on the Vandal Royal Title’, in: W. Pohl en G. Heydemann (ed.), Post-Roman…. From the entry Rhomaian
• Beyond the limits of the canton, and beyond the known distances, lay mysterious lands that were thought to be dangerous and inhabited by barbarians."2007, Graham Robb, quoting an unnamed writer, “Chapter 2: The Tribes of France, I”, in The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography…. From the entry canton
• The 'Germanist' view has been countered with the 'Romanist' or 'continuity' view, which holds that the Germanic barbarians created little that was new.2005 [1995], “The Barbarian invasions”, in The New Cambridge Medieval History (The New Cambridge Medieval History), volume 1, Cambridge…. From the entry Romanist
• A rap is literally inlandish (the product of barbarians born within the gates), a scatological scat-singing, the agonistic display of an uncomplicatedly emoting mammal.2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, page 179. From the entry inlandish
• Forged during battle and dipped in the blood of the brave fallen, the enchantment granted to the blade by the barbarian gods is incredible.2000, BioWare, Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn. From the entry warblade
• For the Baslers no town exists but their own: only Basel is "civilized," and north of the river Birs the land of the barbarians begins.1989, C. G. Jung, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, →ISBN. From the entry Basler
• Yesterday a barbarian soldier reported General Hsiao T'ien-tso was at Nine Dragons Flying Tiger Valley and had fought a battle at T'ien-men.1967, Adolphe Clarence Scott, transl., Traditional Chinese Plays, 1970 printing, volume 1, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry T'ien-men
• Some people, he said, think that Li-chiang is a wilderness of the wild barbarians or place it in the same category as Tibet.1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 321. From the entry Li-chiang
• For example, you can cast Barbarrel on an incoming Executioner, and the spawning barbarian will distract the Executioner long enough for your tower to kill it.2018 March 24, u/knight-of-dawn, “First look at Barbarian Barrel”, in r/ClashRoyale, Reddit. From the entry Barbarrel
• “I've terrible serious doubts as to whether eight paltry legions would do more than angrify the barbarians whilst making only a smallish dent in the whole of germanorum.”2011, William Walling, Arminius. From the entry angrify
• It honoured Zeus Eleutherius, protector of the freedom (eleutheria) from barbarian dominion which the victory on this spot had secured for the Greeks of former times.2011, A. J. S. Spawforth, Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry Eleutherian
• You can almost see some be-togaed pre-Buckley Roman sage wistfully urging the barbarians to practice their Latin paradigms aloud so as to keep the language alive.1995 March 2, Carroll Wilson, “Idea that computers will replace books dead wrong”, in Times Record News, volume 88, number 288, Wichita…. From the entry be-togaed
• Thanks to its border on the Siberian forest in the north, it was open to barbarian incomers who would upset existing polities and set migrations going.1980, Patria Crone, Slaves on Horseback: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN. From the entry sea
• The scenes were probably intended as abbreviated representations of combat between griffins and barbarians, since there are many pelikai that carry scenes of Amazons on horseback in combat with griffins.2002, Faraj Mohmoud Elrashedy, Imports of Post-Archaic Greek Pottery into Cyrenaica: From the End of the Archaic to the Beginning of the…. From the entry pelike
• This idiosyncrasy is brought out by social pressure, while in a state of nature it might have betrayed itself only in trivial and futile ways, as it does among barbarians.1905, George Santayana, Reason in Common Sense (The Life of Reason), volume 1. From the entry futile

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.

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How do you use barbarian in a sentence?

Barbarian is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.”

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“'You talk heresy, smoothskin,' the barbarian growled.”

What does barbarian mean?

Barbarian means relating to people, countries, or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.