Usually means: Uncivilized behavior, crude cultural practices.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word barbarism:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. barbarism: Merriam-Webster
  2. barbarism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barbarism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barbarism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barbarism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barbarism, barbarism: Wordnik
  7. barbarism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. barbarism: Wiktionary
  9. barbarism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. barbarism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. barbarism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Barbarism, barbarism: Dictionary.com
  13. Barbarism (linguistics), Barbarism (modern linguistics), Barbarism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Barbarism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. barbarism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. barbarism: Rhymezone
  17. Barbarism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. barbarism: FreeDictionary.org
  19. barbarism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. barbarism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. barbarism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barbarism: Encyclopedia

(Note: See barbarisms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A barbaric act.
noun:  The condition of existing barbarically.
noun:  A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.
noun:  An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.

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