Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A barbaric act.

    These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.

    Barbarei

    ва́рварствоvárvarstvo

    ва́рварствоvárvarstvo

    a brutal barbarous savage act

  2. (countable, uncountable)The condition of existing barbarically.

    Barbarei

    ва́рварствоvárvarstvo

  3. (countable, uncountable)A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.

  4. (countable, uncountable)An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.

    Barbarismus

    варвари́змvarvarízm

    варвари́змvarvarýzm

Examples

11 sentences
  1. We've come from barbarism, but not far.

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  2. We have begun our slow collapse into barbarism.

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  3. Does barbarism mean the people who cut hair?

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  4. This is a fight between civilization and barbarism.

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  5. Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
barbaric act:
error in language use:
Русский
By meaning 2
barbaric act:
error in language use:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
barbaric act:
error in language use:

Forms

plural: barbarisms
Singularbarbarism
Pluralbarbarisms

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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