What does barrier mean?
Barrier means A structure that bars passage..
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/ˈbæɹi.ə/ · noun
A structure that bars passage..
The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.
The bomber had passed through one checkpoint before blowing himself up at a second barrier.
Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.
The downside of normalization is that it erects a defensive barrier between the real world and the perceived i.e. normalized world.
Use barrier when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Barrier means A structure that bars passage..
Common synonyms include bar, roadblock.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.
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