Associations to the word «Barbarossa»

Wiktionary

BARBAROSSA, proper noun. A nickname of several historical characters
BARBAROSSA, proper noun. Operation Barbarossa: The nickname of the 1941 Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II.

Dictionary definition

BARBAROSSA, noun. Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190).
BARBAROSSA, noun. Barbary pirate (died in 1546).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope