Meaning: A member of an uncivilized people. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: savage; barbarian. Hypernyms (barbarian is a kind of...): primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of barbarian): anthropophagite; anthropophagus; cannibal; man-eater (a person who eats human flesh) head-shrinker; headhunter (a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies) hunter-gatherer (a member of a hunting and gathering society)
Historic Fort Hamilton is located in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, and is one of several posts that are part of the region which is headquartered by the Military District of Washington.
The field, like the school it serves, takes its name from nearby Fort Hamilton, one of the oldest continuously garrisoned federal military posts in the United States. The fort honors Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), the distinguished colonial statesman and first Secretary of the Treasury. Fort Hamilton was built at the Brooklyn shore of the narrows between 1825 and 1831. During the Civil War (1861-1865), it served as a training ground for volunteer New York State regiments.