barbarian

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A member of a people considered by those of another nation or group to have a primitive civilization.
2. n. A fierce, brutal, or cruel person.
3. n. An insensitive, uncultured person; a boor. See Synonyms at boor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A foreigner; one whose language and customs differ from those of the speaker or writer.
2. n. One outside the pale of Christian civilization.
3. n. A man in a rude, savage state; an uncivilized person.
4. n. An uncultured person; one who has no sympathy with culture; a philistine.
5. n. A cruel, savage, brutal person; one destitute of pity or humanity: as, “thou fell barbarian,”
6. n. [capitalized] A native of Barbary. Synonyms Heathen, etc. See gentile, n.
7. Foreign; of another or outside nation; hence, non-Hellenic, non-Roman, non-Christian, non-Chinese, etc.
8. Of or pertaining to savages; rude; uncivilized.
9. Cruel; inhuman; barbarous.
10. [capitalized] Of or belonging to Barbary. Synonyms Barbarian, Barbarous, Barbaric, unlettered, uncultivated, untutored, ignorant. Barbarian applies to whatever pertains to the life of an uncivilized people, without special reference to its moral aspects. Barbarous properly expresses the bad side of barbarian life and character, especially its inhumanity or cruelty: as, a barbarous act. Barbaric expresses the characteristic love of barbarians for adornment, magnificence, noise, etc., but it is not commonly applied to persons; it implies the lack of cultivated taste: as, barbaric music; barbaric splendor. Barbarian and barbaric are now strictly confined to the meanings named above.
11. n. A member of a barbarian people. See II., 5.
12. In anthropology, pertaining to a state of society in which descent is reckoned in the paternal line, and in which the members of the paternal family of all generations form an exogamous social unit called a gens.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Relating to people, countries or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
2. n. An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; often associated with fighting or other such shows of strength.
3. n. derogatory Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
4. n. A warrior, clad in fur or leather, associated with Sword and Sorcery stories.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Historical A foreigner.
2. n. A man in a rude, savage, or uncivilized state.
3. n. A person destitute of culture.
4. n. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
5. adj. Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
2. adj. without civilizing influences
3. n. a member of an uncivilized people