Should Barbarians Be Capitalized?

Of or pertaining to savages; rude; uncivilized. Cruel; inhuman; barbarous. [capitalized] Of or belonging to Barbary.

How do you use barbarian in a sentence?

Barbarians sentence example
  1. They are the barbarians I told you about. ...
  2. The splendour of the imperial city profoundly impressed all the northern barbarians , and the Magyars, during the 10th century, saw a great deal of the Greeks. ...
  3. Originally the surrounding district was known as the "land of the southern barbarians ."

Is it OK to say barbarian?

Like the word savage, the word barbarian can be very offensive due to its use to dehumanize the people that it's applied to, especially in a way that calls attention to their otherness or the supposed primitiveness of their culture or customs.

Alexander Ross

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