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barn

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
[ˈbɑɹn]
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[ˈbɑɹn] · [ˈbɑɻn] · [ˈbaɹn] · [ˈbɒən] · [ˈbɒɹn] · [ˈbɑːn] · [ˈbäːn] · [ˈbɐ̞ːn]

Definition of barn

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
    “One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.”
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noun

  1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
    “One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.”
  2. A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
  3. (informal)An arena.
    “Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.”
  4. (slang)A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
  5. A child.

verb

  1. (transitive)To lay up in a barn.
    “But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits”
    “Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.”

name

  1. A diminutive of the male given names Barney, Barnabas, Barnaby, or Barnett.
  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname; diminutive of Barnard (“surname”).

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Etymology

From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from…

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From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”). More at rest and barley. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.

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