barber
UK/ˈbɑːbə//ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/
barber noun: a person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.
Noun
barber (plural barbers)
- A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.
- There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27
- Synonyms:
- haircutter, hairdresser, hairstylist, tonsor, cutbeard
- A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
- 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.
Verb
barber (third-person singular simple present barbers, present participle barbering, simple past and past participle barbered)
Proper noun capitalized: Barber
Barber (countable and uncountable, plural Barbers)
- A surname originating as an occupation for a barber.
- A neighbourhood of Chico, Butte County, California.
- A township in Faribault County, Minnesota.
- Former name of Maurer, a neighborhood of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.
- A town in the north of Curaçao.
- Ellipsis of Barber County
barber meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
barber in Hindi
- person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
- नाई nāī
barber in Marathi
- person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
- न्हावी nhāvī
barber in Bengali
- person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
- নাপিত napito
barber in Telugu
- person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
- క్షురకుడు kṣurakuḍu, మంగలి maṅgali
- to cut the hair
- క్షవరం చేయు kṣavaraṁ cēyu, జుత్తు కత్తరించు juttu kattariñcu
More languagesFewer languages
- barber in Malayalam
- ക്ഷുരകൻ kṣurakaṉ, അമ്പിട്ടൻ ampiṭṭaṉ
- barber in Kannada
- ಕ್ಷೌರಿಕನು
- barber in Gujarati
- હજામ hajām
- barber in Sanskrit
- नापित nāpita
- barber in Assamese
- নাপিত napit
- barber in Tagalog
- barbero, manggugupit
- barber in Arabic
- حَلَّاق ḥallāq, حلاقَة
- barber in Indonesian
- barbir, tukang cukur
- barber in Persian
- سرتراش sartarâš, گرای garāy, سترنده setorande, پیرایشگر pīrāyešgar
- barber in Thai
- กัลบก gan-lá-bòk, ช่างตัดผม châang-dtàt-pǒm
- barber in Vietnamese
- thợ cắt tóc, cắt tóc, cạo mặt
- barber in Myanmar
- ဆတ္တာသည် hcattasany
Examples of barber in a sentence
- I instructed the barber to give me a shave.
- The trades of barbering and surgery have long been linked, as evidenced by the barber's red and white striped pole.
- He got a bad haircut from an overeager fellow who had just begun his career as a barber.
Synonyms of barber
Forms of barber
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | barbers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | barbers |
| present participle | barbering |
| past participle | barbered |
| past | barbered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Barbers |
Origin of barber
PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.
Words formed from barber
- Barber County
- barber beats
- barber chair
- barber-chair
- barberess
- barberfish
- barberish
- barber itch
- barberly
- barbermonger
- barber paradox
- barberpole
- barber-pole
- barber pole
- barber pole effect
- barber pole illusion
- barber's block
- barber's clerk
- barbershop
- barber shop
- barber's itch
- barber's pole
- barber's rash
- barber's sign
- barber-surgeon
- barber surgeon
- conceited as a barber's cat
- jack-knife barber
- never ask the barber if you need a haircut
- poor as a barber's cat
- sleeping barber problem
- thin as a barber's cat
- unbarbered
Phrases with barber
Words that rhyme with barber
- harbor
- arbor
- Baine Harbour
- Blacks Harbour
- Clark's Harbour
- Conception Harbour
- Cook's Harbour
- Daniel's Harbour
- Fox Harbour
- Hant's Harbour
- Lark Harbour
- Mary's Harbour
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Questions about barber
- What does barber mean?
- Barber means a person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.
- What is barber in Hindi?
- Barber in Hindi is नाई (nāī). See Barber meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is barber?
- Barber can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce barber?
- Barber is pronounced /ˈbɑːbə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of barber?
- The plural of barber is barbers.
Words near barber in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: barber (page history and authors); Barber (page history and authors); barber (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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