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barber's shop

barber's shop is the alternative form of barbershop.

Meaning of barbershop

Noun

barbershop (countable and uncountable, plural barbershops)

  1. (countable) The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.
  2. (uncountable) A style of a cappella vocal music, usually sung in four-part harmony.

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Forms of barber's shop

pluralbarber's shops

Questions about barber's shop

What is barber's shop the alternative form of?
Barber's shop is the alternative form of barbershop.

Words near barber's shop in the dictionary

  1. barber's clerk
  2. barber's itch
  3. barber's pole
  4. barber's poles
  5. barber's rash
  6. barber's shop
  7. barber's shops
  8. barber's sign
  9. barber-chair
  10. barber-chaired
  11. barber-chairing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barber's shop (page history and authors); barbershop (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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