Barn

Quick meaning: Barn is a noun meaning (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.

Meaning

(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.

More Meanings

1. (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
2. (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.
3. (transitive) To lay up in a barn.
4. (certain Northern England dialects, otherwise obsolete) A child.
5. (slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.

Example Sentences

Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.

But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits

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.

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.

Word Forms

• barns
• barning
• barned

Synonyms for barn

Depending on context, synonyms include bairn, imbarn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include granary, grange, farm, breadbasket, yard, stall.

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