Barber

Quick meaning: Barber is a noun meaning A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.

Meaning

A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.

More Meanings

1. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
2. (transitive) To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
3. (intransitive) (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
4. (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.

Example Sentences

‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’

There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.

Word Forms

• barbers
• barbering
• barbered

Synonyms for barber

Depending on context, synonyms include haircutter, hairdresser, hairstylist, tonsor, cutbeard.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include barbershop, haircut, hairdressing, hairdresser, shave, hair.

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