barbarians

3 definitions • 3 examples

a member of a group of people from a very different country or culture that is considered to be less socially advanced and more violent than your own:

The walled city was attacked by barbarian hordes.

a person with little education who has no interest in art and culture:

How can you call those barbarians your friends?

a person who has no experience of the habits and culture of modern life, and whose behavior you therefore consider strange or offensive:

They thought I was some kind of barbarian because I didn’t know how to use a computer.