barn
US[ˈbɑɹn]
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Ireland[ˈbaɹn]
barn noun: a building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
Noun (1)
barn (plural barns)
- A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
- 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.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
- An arena.
- Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.
- A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
Verb
barn (third-person singular simple present barns, present participle barning, simple past and past participle barned)
- To lay up in a barn.
- But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, line 859
- 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.1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times; Good Thoughts in Worse Times; Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, published 1863, page 165
- Synonyms:
- imbarn
Noun (2)
barn (plural barns)
Proper noun capitalized: Barn
Barn (plural Barns)
- A diminutive of the male given names Barney, Barnabas, Barnaby, and Barnett.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname; diminutive of Barnard (“surname”).
barn meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
barn in Hindi
- building
- खलिहान khalihān
barn in Tamil
- தானியக்களஞ்சியம்
barn in Urdu
- غلہ گودام, کھلیان, خرمن, کوٹھا
barn in Bengali
- শস্যাগার
More languagesFewer languages
- barn in Telugu
- గాదె gāde
- barn in Malayalam
- പന്തൽ pantal
- barn in Kannada
- ಕಣಜ, ಧಾನ್ಯ ಸಂಗ್ರಹಿಸುವ ಕೋಠಿ, ಪಣತ, ಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳನ್ನು ರಕ್ಷಿಸುವ ಕಟ್ಟಡ
- barn in Gujarati
- કોઠાર, કોઠારી
- barn in Nepali
- बार्न
- barn in Tagalog
- kamalig
- barn in Arabic
- حَظِيرَة ḥaẓīra, زَرِيبَة zarība
- barn in Malay
- bangsal
- barn in Indonesian
- gudang pertanian, kandang
- barn in Persian
- انبار کاه anbâr-e kâh, کاهدان kâhdân, طویله tavile
- barn in Thai
- ยุ้ง yúng, โรงนา roong-naa
- barn in Vietnamese
- kho, vựa, lẫm
Examples of barn in a sentence
- The fire spread slowly until it caught the eaves of the barn.
- You biffed me back at the barn, and I biffed you here—so now we're even.
- Chew with your mouth shut — were you raised in a barn?
Synonyms of barn
Forms of barn
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | barns |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | barns |
| present participle | barning |
| past participle | barned |
| past | barned |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Barns |
Origin of barn
From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”). More at rest and barley. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.
From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, progeny”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate to West Frisian bern (“child, children”), Middle Dutch baren (“child”).
* Clipping of Barney. * Clipping of Barnett. * Clipping of Barnabas. * Clipping of Barnaby. * Clipping of Barnard.
Words formed from barn
- around Robin Hood's barn
- attobarn
- barnboard
- barnburner
- barn burner
- barnburning
- barn cat
- barn coat
- barn dance
- barn dancing
- barndominium
- barndoor
- barn door
- barn doors
- barn egg
- barn find
- barnfloor
- barnful
- barnless
- barn-like
- barnlike
- barnmate
- barn owl
- barnraising
- barn-raising
- barn raising
- barn red
- barn sale
- Barns Green
- barnstar
- barn-star
- barn star
- barnstorm
- barnstormer
- barnstorming
- barn swallow
- barnwood
- barnyard
- Besses o' th' Barn
- big as a barn
- bit by a barn mouse
- born in a barn
- bus barn
- carbarn
- car barn
- close the barn door after the horse has bolted
- cowbarn
- Dutch barn
- embarn
- femtobarn
- fire barn
- haybarn
- horsebarn
- housebarn
- house-barn
- house barn
- imbarn
- kilobarn
- Long Barn
- megabarn
Phrases with barn
- New Barn
- barn cats
- barn eggs
- barn owls
- barn reds
- pole barn
- show barn
- barn finds
- barn sales
- barn stars
- tithe barn
- barn danced
30 more phrasesFewer phrases
- barn dances
- barn doored
- barn burners
- barn dooring
- milking barn
- barn raisings
- barn swallows
- barn door wipe
- smell the barn
- smelt the barn
- smells the barn
- pony in the barn
- raised in a barn
- smelled the barn
- western barn owl
- Pennsylvania barn
- Pottery Barn rule
- smelling the barn
- western barn owls
- ponies in the barn
- Pottery Barn rules
- Longfield and New Barn
- your barn door is open
- the cow is out of the barn
- the long way around the barn
- big house, little house, back house, barn
- not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
- closed the barn door after the horse had bolted
- closes the barn door after the horse has bolted
- closing the barn door after the horse has bolted
Words that rhyme with barn
Questions about barn
- What does barn mean?
- Barn means a building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
- What is barn in Hindi?
- Barn in Hindi is खलिहान (khalihān). See Barn meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is barn?
- Barn can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce barn?
- Barn is pronounced [ˈbɑɹn] (US).
- What is the plural of barn?
- The plural of barn is barns.
Words near barn in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: barn (page history and authors); Barn (page history and authors); barn (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barn (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barn (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గాదె (Telugu) (page history and authors); പന്തൽ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); barn (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barn (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barn (Nepali, 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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