Barbados
/bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.dɒs//bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊs/
Barbados proper noun: an island and country in the Caribbean.
Proper noun
Barbados
Verb
Barbados (third-person singular simple present Barbadoses, present participle Barbadosing, simple past and past participle Barbadosed)
- To press-gang (force into naval service).
- The Barbadian planters […] resorted to shipping in hundreds of Scottish and Irish soldiers who’d been taken prisoner during Oliver Cromwell’s conquest. When that supply ran out, they took to kidnapping children, so many that a new term was coined: “barbadosed” meant the same thing in the late...2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 7, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN
Barbados meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Barbados in Hindi
- country in the Caribbean
- बारबाडोस bārbāḍos
Barbados in Tamil
- country in the Caribbean
- பார்படோஸ் pārpaṭōs, பார்படோசு pārpaṭōcu
Barbados in Urdu
- country in the Caribbean
- بارباڈوس bārbāḍos
Barbados in Bengali
- country in the Caribbean
- বার্বাডোস barbaḍōs
More languagesFewer languages
- Barbados in Telugu
- బార్బడోస్ bārbaḍōs
- Barbados in Malayalam
- ബാർബേഡോസ് bāṟbēḍōsŭ
- Barbados in Kannada
- ಬಾರ್ಬಡೋಸ್ bārbaḍōs
- Barbados in Punjabi
- ਬਾਰਬਾਡੋਸ bārbāḍos
- Barbados in Sinhala
- බාබඩෝස් bābaḍōs
- Barbados in Arabic
- بَرْبَادُوس barbādos, barbēdos, barbadōs
- Barbados in Persian
- باربادوس bârbâdos
- Barbados in Thai
- บาร์เบโดส baa-bee-dóos
- Barbados in Vietnamese
- Bác-ba-đốt
- Barbados in Myanmar
- ဘာဘေးဒိုးစ် bhabhe:duic:
Forms of Barbados
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (archaic) | Barbadoes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | Barbadoses |
| present participle | Barbadosing |
| past participle | Barbadosed |
| past | Barbadosed |
Origin of Barbados
From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.
Words formed from Barbados
- Barbados anole
- Barbados Blackbelly
- Barbados bullfinch
- Barbados cherry
- Barbados leaf-toed gecko
- Barbados leg
- Barbados lily
- Barbados nut
- Barbados raccoon
- Barbados racer
- Barbados threadsnake
- pride of Barbados
Phrases with Barbados
Questions about Barbados
- What does Barbados mean?
- Barbados means an island and country in the Caribbean.
- What is Barbados in Hindi?
- Barbados in Hindi is बारबाडोस (bārbāḍos). See Barbados meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Barbados?
- Barbados can be a proper noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce Barbados?
- Barbados is pronounced /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.dɒs/ (UK).
Words near Barbados in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Barbados (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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