Usually means: Region, North Africa, historical significance.
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  1. Barbary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Barbary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Barbary: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Barbary: Vocabulary.com
  5. Barbary, barbary: Wordnik
  6. Barbary, barbary: Wiktionary
  7. Barbary: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Barbary, barbary: Dictionary.com
  9. Barbary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Barbary (disambiguation), Barbary (novel), Barbary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Barbary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. barbary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Barbary: Rhymezone
  14. Barbary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. barbary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. Barbary: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. barbary: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Barbary)

▸ noun:  (historical) The Mediterranean coastal areas of North Africa that were used as a base by pirates in the 16th to 19th centuries.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) barbarian; non-Christian

Similar:
Mahommetan, Moslemic, Muslimistic, Mahometan, Mohammetan, Hagarene, Mohametan, Bolghar, Mohammedan, Mussulmanic, more...

Opposite:
civilization, refinement, culture

Types:
macaque, baboon, mandrill, gelada, guenon, patas, vervet, rhesus, more...

Phrases:
Barbary Coast, Barbary pirates, barbary states, Barbary sheep, barbary macaques, more...

Adjectives:
poor, western, new, modern, high, very, eastern, late, southern, longer, tripoli

Colors:
    desert sand,     olive green,     coral pink,     sunset orange,     ocean blue, more...
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Similar:
Mahommetan, Moslemic, Muslimistic, Mahometan, Mohammetan, Hagarene, Mohametan, Bolghar, Mohammedan, Mussulmanic, more...

Opposite:
civilization, refinement, culture

Types:
macaque, baboon, mandrill, gelada, guenon, patas, vervet, rhesus, more...

Phrases:
Barbary Coast, Barbary pirates, barbary states, Barbary sheep, barbary macaques, Barbary Wars, Barbary ape, Barbary macaque, barbary apes, barbary horse, barbary pirate, Barbary dove, Barbary lion, barbary duck, more...

Adjectives:
poor, western, new, modern, high, very, eastern, late, southern, longer, tripoli

Colors:
    desert sand,     olive green,     coral pink,     sunset orange,     ocean blue, more...



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