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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.
Robert Dale Owen

Meaning of "barbarous" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BARBAROUS

Via Latin from Greek barbaros barbarian, non-Greek, in origin imitative of incomprehensible speech; compare Sanskrit barbara stammering, non-Aryan.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BARBAROUS

barbarous  [ˈbɑːbərəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BARBAROUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Barbarous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BARBAROUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

barbarous

Barbarian

The term "barbarian" refers to a person who is perceived to be uncivilized. The word is often used either in a general reference to member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal society as seen by an urban civilization either viewed as inferior, or admired as a noble savage. In idiomatic or figurative usage, a "barbarian" may also be an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, warlike, insensitive person. The term originates from the Greek word βάρβαρος. Hence the Greek idiom "πᾶς μὴ Ἕλλην βάρβαρος" which literally means "whoever is not Greek is a barbarian". In ancient times, Greeks used it mostly for people of different cultures, but there are examples where one Greek city or state would use the word to attack another; in the early modern period and sometimes later, Greeks used it for the Turks, in a clearly pejorative way. Comparable notions are found in non-European civilizations, notably China and Japan. In the Roman Empire, Romans used the word "barbarian" for many people, such as the Berbers, Germanics, Celts, Carthaginians, Iberians, Thracians and Persians.

Definition of barbarous in the English dictionary

The first definition of barbarous in the dictionary is uncivilized; primitive. Other definition of barbarous is brutal or cruel. Barbarous is also lacking refinement.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BARBAROUS


adventurous
ədˈvɛntʃərəs
amberous
ˈæmbərəs
arborous
ˈɑːbərəs
Carreras
kəˈrɛərəs
Cerberus
ˈsɜːbərəs
dangerous
ˈdeɪndʒərəs
generous
ˈdʒɛnərəs
glamorous
ˈɡlæmərəs
glamourous
ˈɡlæmərəs
harborous
ˈhɑːbərəs
Honduras
hɒnˈdjʊərəs
humorous
ˈhjuːmərəs
Lazarus
ˈlæzərəs
numerous
ˈnjuːmərəs
phosphorus
ˈfɒsfərəs
rigorous
ˈrɪɡərəs
slumberous
ˈslʌmbərəs
tuberous
ˈtjuːbərəs
uberous
ˈjuːbərəs
vigorous
ˈvɪɡərəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BARBAROUS

barbaresque
barbarian
barbarianism
barbaric
barbarically
barbarisation
barbarise
barbarism
barbarities
barbarity
barbarization
barbarize
Barbarossa
barbarously
barbarousness

WORDS THAT END LIKE BARBAROUS

biparous
cellarous
deiparous
fetiparous
fissiparous
gemmiparous
iteroparous
multiparous
nectarous
nulliparous
omniparous
oviparous
ovoviviparous
porous
primiparous
pupiparous
semelparous
semioviparous
uniparous
uriniparous
viviparous

Synonyms and antonyms of barbarous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BARBAROUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «barbarous» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of barbarous

Translation of «barbarous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BARBAROUS

Find out the translation of barbarous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of barbarous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «barbarous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

野蛮
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bárbara
570 millions of speakers

English

barbarous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बर्बर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بربرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

варварское
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bárbaro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বর্বর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

barbare
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Biadab
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

barbarisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

野蛮な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

야만적
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Barbarous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chưa khai hóa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பார்பராஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रूर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

barbar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

barbaro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

barbarzyński
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

варварське
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

barbar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βάρβαρη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

barbaarse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

barba
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

barbariske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of barbarous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BARBAROUS»

The term «barbarous» is regularly used and occupies the 81.056 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BARBAROUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about barbarous

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10 QUOTES WITH «BARBAROUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word barbarous.
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Ethan Allen
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
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Daniel Defoe
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
3
Albert Bushnell Hart
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
4
June Jordan
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
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Louis MacNeice
A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.
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Robert Dale Owen
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.
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Jose Rizal
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
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Charles Dudley Warner
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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William Wilberforce
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
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George Edward Woodberry
Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BARBAROUS»

Discover the use of barbarous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to barbarous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: ...
In these vivid stories of individual lives—some new, some familiar but rewritten with new details and contexts—Bailyn gives a fresh account of the history of the British North American population in its earliest, bitterly contested ...
Bernard Bailyn, 2012
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Barbarous Souls
What followed was a tragic miscarriage of justice. Barbarous Souls tells the story of Darrel Parker's wrongful conviction for Nancy's murder and the decades-long struggle to clear his name. --
David L. Strauss, 2010
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Rude and Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of ...
Lloyd E. Berry and Robert O. Crummey offer edited accounts of six English voyagers and their experiences in Muscovy Russia between 1553 and 1600.
Lloyd E. Berry, Robert O. Crummey, 2012
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Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage
"Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, this book examines the English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama.
Lara Bovilsky, 2008
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Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics
Sauer investigates the texts' discursive practices and the politics of their orchestration of voice exploring the ways in which Milton's multivocal poems interrogated dominant structures of authority in the seventeenth century and ...
Elizabeth Sauer, 1996
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Barbarous Mexico
The present edition, with an introductory biographical essay on Turner by Sinclair Snow and photographs of the principal characters involved, not only reemphasizes the causes of the Mexican Revolution, but provides both lay reader and ...
John Kenneth Turner, 2014
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Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in ...
The third in a four-volume series commemorating California's sesquicentennial, this volume brings together the best of the new scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Gold Rush, written in an accessible style and generously ...
Kevin Starr, Richard J. Orsi, 2000
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Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right ...
How the violent rhetoric of the Right has polluted political discourse in America
Jeffrey Feldman, 2008
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The Barbarous Coast
Beset by dirty cops, a bumptious boxer turned silver screen pretty boy and a Hollywood mogul with a dark past, Archer discovers the secret of a grisly murder that just won't stay hidden.Lew Archer navigates through the watery, violent world ...
Ross Macdonald, 2010
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History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith Amongst the Most ...
Considered by historian Herbert E. Bolton to be one of the greatest books ever written in the West, AndrŽs PŽrez de Ribas's history of the Jesuit missions provides unusual insight into Spanish and Indian relations during the colonial ...
AndrŽs PŽrez de Ribas, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BARBAROUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term barbarous is used in the context of the following news items.
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You Won't Believe What British Lawmakers Proposed In Connection …
What it is, is an appalling, barbarous regime. It is a perversion of the religion of Islam, and, you know, many Muslims listening to this program ... «Western Journalism, Jul 15»
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What's in a Name? U.K. Joins Debate on Labeling of Islamic State …
... telling the BBC that Muslim listeners “recoil every time they hear the words Islamic State” used to refer to an “appalling, barbarous regime.” ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
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Why I Am Not A Men's Rights Activist - The Federalist
Conservatives judge on the axis of “Will this policy make the world more civilized or more barbarous?” And liberals judge on the axis of “Will ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
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Yucatán, USA? - The Yucatan Times
He urged his colleagues to “defend white civilization against barbarous savages” and to take Yucatán in order to prevent Britain from seizing all ... «The Yucatan Times, Jul 15»
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Religious persecution of Christians around the globe - the future …
Because of this ugly and barbarous war, they have lost so many loved ones, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters and cherished children.". «Independent Catholic News, Jul 15»
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Greece says No, will Germany now try and kick it out of the Euro …
... can with impunity fly the flag of the murderous, barbarous Islamic State in the centre of London than I am about what is happening in Greece. «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
This Fourth of July is different | The Troy Messenger
... a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”. «Troy Messenger, Jul 15»
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Tour de France heads into low country promising anything but flat …
Although far from barbarous, these assorted parcours ought to offer up a mouth-watering array of technical challenges and have every chance ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
Stories of Omaha Central grads killed in WWII delivered to grateful …
“To have the Nazis come in and be as barbarous as they were, they feel it very strongly and personally that people from the other side of the ... «Omaha World-Herald, Jul 15»
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EDITORIAL: Rancor, indignation, defiance aside, our nation must …
... a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”. «Waco Tribune-Herald, Jul 15»

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