n. A foreigner; one whose language and customs differ from those of the speaker or writer.n. One outside the pale of Christian civilization.n. A man in a rude, savage state; an uncivilized person.n. An uncultured person; one who has no sympathy with culture; a philistine.n. A cruel, savage, brutal person; one destitute of pity or humanity: as, “thou fell barbarian,”n. [capitalized] A native of Barbary.Foreign; of another or outside nation; hence, non-Hellenic, non-Roman, non-Christian, non-Chinese, etc.Of or pertaining to savages; rude; uncivilized.Cruel; inhuman; barbarous.[capitalized] Of or belonging to Barbary.n. A member of a barbarian people. See II., 5.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.