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barbarism 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Noun
/ˈbärbəˌrizəm/,
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barbarisms, plural;
  1. Absence of culture and civilization
    • - the collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism
  2. A word or expression that is badly formed according to traditional philological rules, for example a word formed from elements of different languages, such as breathalyzer (English and Greek) or television (Greek and Latin)

  3. Extreme cruelty or brutality
    • - she called the execution an act of barbarism
    • - barbarisms from the country's past
  1. brutality: a brutal barbarous savage act
  2. (barbaric) barbarian: without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
  3. (barbaric) unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"
  4. Barbarism refers to a non-standard word, expression or pronunciation in a language, particularly one prescriptively regarded as an error in morphology, while a solecism is something prescriptively regarded as an error in syntax. The term is used mainly for the written language. ...
  5. (Barbaric) A barbarian is an uncivilized person. The word is often used pejoratively, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal society as seen by an urban civilization either viewed as inferior, or admired as a noble savage. ...
  6. A barbaric act; The condition of existing barbarically; An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation
  7. Also called serfdom or feudalism. A stage of social development above slavery, where most production came from serfs who were obliged to work on large estates under an aristocratic family. More
  8. Mispronunciation or unnatural word-usage.
  9. According to the system of cultural anthropology developed by Morgan, the period of human history after the invention of pottery but before the invention of phonetic writing; that is, after the end of savagery but before the beginning of civilization. ...