(n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
(n.) A person destitute of culture.
(n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
(a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is Iron Man as Conan: he may be a genius on Earth but when he meets advanced alien civilisations, they just see him as a cute little barbarian."
(2) Note the speed with which a delegation of 20 imams visited the Charlie Hebdo offices , branding the gunmen “criminals, barbarians, satans” and, crucially, “not Muslims”.
(3) These barbarians, they are murdering cartoonists for drawing cartoons they don’t like … murdering, killing, torturing Christians, Muslims, other religious minorities.
(4) He was already living in an empire in which the "barbarians" were not so barbaric anymore, but had been influenced by Roman civilisation for decades or even centuries, and were not a threat to the Roman " Leitkultur ".
(5) John Milius's Conan the Barbarian, from 1982, is considered the best film about Robert E Howard's Cimmerian warrior, and helped launched its star on the road to the Hollywood A-list.
(6) In the hands-on available in the Microsoft booth, players control the game's protagonist, Marius Titus, as he storms the beaches of Dover and lays waste to the Celtic barbarians he encounters.
(7) Samoa will complete their World Cup warm-up schedule by facing the Barbarians, who have already lined up matches against Ireland, England and Argentina.
(8) There still exists a view that Bashir's government is all that stands between stability and the barbarians at the gate, ready to storm the capital city and wreak vengeance for all the grievances inflicted by the Arab centre of power.
(9) A former international rugby player, he played for Ireland, the British and Irish Lions and the Barbarians and is the highest try scorer in the history of the Lions.
(10) Mao is supposed to have created order in the Chinese empire by kicking out the barbarians, punishing evil-doers, and restoring virtue.
(11) Trump's Warsaw speech pits western world against barbarians at the gates Read more The government describes the moves as a necessary means to speed up the process of issuing judgments and to break what it describes as the grip of a “privileged caste” of lawyers and judges.
(12) On sale: barbarian repellent, anti-robot fluid and opposable thumbs.
(13) He added: “We will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group.
(14) It is a great privilege for the Samoan rugby union to play the Barbarians in the run-up to Rugby World Cup 2015 ,” said the Samoa coach, Stephen Betham.
(15) Dawkins states: "A native speaker of English who has not read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian."
(16) The nadir came last week when Sarkozy's new immigration chief Arno Klarsfeld – the eldest son, ironically, of Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld – called for a wall to be built between Greece and Turkey to save Europe from barbarian invaders.
(17) Future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live.” The issue of women’s reproductive rights has been resuscitated in the Republican base in recent weeks after an undercover sting captured employees of Planned Parenthood, which offers a range of women’s health services, discussing the sale of fetal body parts following abortions.
(18) And in her 1951 opus magnum The Origins of Totalitarianism , from which the above quotations derive, she warned that "a global, universally interrelated civilisation may produce barbarians from its own midst by forcing millions of people into conditions which, despite all appearances, are the conditions of savages".
(19) Male figures include a Constable, a Barbarian, a Mountain Climber (very heroic he is too) and an Island Warrior.
(20) We are delighted to add the Barbarians-Samoa match at the Olympic Stadium to our testing programme,” the England Rugby 2015 chief executive said.
Turk
Definition:
(n.) A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Turkey.
(n.) A Mohammedan; esp., one living in Turkey.
(n.) The plum weevil. See Curculio, and Plum weevil, under Plum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Çavuşoğlu had had a request turned down on Friday to address a campaign rally in support of plans by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , to extend his powers, which Turks will vote on in a referendum next month.
(2) The Americans and British supported the Turks, who abandoned their neutrality and joined Nato, having fought in the Korean war.
(3) If we say something, the world accuses us of interfering with the press, so we’re not in a comfortable position now, but after 1 November we will settle up with all of them.” Beset by terror and crisis at home and war abroad, Turks prepare for a fateful choice Read more Rights groups questioned the move against opposition media outlets so close to an election.
(4) In a hotly disputed libel suit, the Conservative party deputy chairman is accused of providing loans of more than $5m to the disgraced former premier of the Turks and Caicos, Michael Misick, through the local bank Ashcroft controls.
(5) A conservative, lower-middle-class district bordering the Golden Horn and predominantly inhabited by Turks from the Black Sea coast, Kasimpasa loves Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the powerful prime minister increasingly reviled across Turkey and tarnished internationally.
(6) The fortress-like villages perched on rocky mountaintops we saw when we visited the north of the country are reminders that Yemen has constantly been invaded, or otherwise meddled with, by outsiders, from the Turks onwards.
(7) Hb Bart's was detected in Turks (2.9%), Cypriots (2.8%), Egyptians (2.0%), Lebanese (0.8%), Greeks (0.7%), Italians (0.5%), and Yugoslavs (0.2%).
(8) Frequencies of various hemoglobinopathies were examined in a total of 1,922 individuals of Eti-Turk origin by electrophoretical techniques.
(9) A 30-year-old Turk was admitted with signs of exudative enteropathy together with malabsorption.
(10) On a modest street in a rundown area, Aziz Kara, a 64-year-old Turk, became embroiled in a ferocious argument with his neighbours.
(11) "Turks and Kurds fought together in Çanakkale [during the first world war], and launched the Turkish parliament together in 1920," he said.
(12) In 2007, ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who received death threats because of his comments about the killings of Armenians by Turks in 1915, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul.
(13) A case of Kaposi sarcoma is reported in a 40-year-old Turk 3 months after a kidney transplantation under immunosuppression with cyclosporin A and methylprednisolone.
(14) On a day that should have been one of the happiest in the Muslim calendar, the festival of Eid al-Adha, hundreds of Turks and refugee Kurds spent the morning at the border with Syria, watching helplessly as shells rained down on a city many once called home.
(15) Three of the six ships flew the Turkish flag, the convoy was organised by a Turkish charity, and several hundred of those on board the ships were Turks.
(16) The paper alleges: "It was well-known that corruption among politicians in the Turks and Caicos Islands was endemic and it was inherently unlikely that Mr Misick could have achieved such apparent wealth and pursued such an ostentatious lifestyle while being premier, without having being corrupt.
(17) Police arrested 47 people following an attack by mainland Turks on motorcyclists carrying "vote yes" banners, the interior minister in the Turkish-Cypriot state, Ozkan Murat, said.
(18) It was a disappointing moment for Turks to learn that the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to approve a resolution describing the massacre of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during the first world war as genocide.
(19) Cyprus has long blocked Turkey’s membership talks over the presence of Turkish troops in the breakaway Turkish-speaking north of the island, while a host of bureaucratic hurdles have to be cleared to make visa liberalisation, relaxing requirements placed on Turks, a reality.
(20) Of the 10 jurisdictions flagged on the scorecard for their low tax rate, eight are British overseas territories or crown dependencies: Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey and the Turks and Caicos Islands.