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barn-raising

barn-raising is the alternative form of barnraising.

Meaning of barnraising

Noun

barnraising (plural barnraisings)

  1. The collective construction of a barn by members of a community, common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America, and present-day Mennonite and Amish communities.
    • It was founded on a deep knowledge of human nature; namely, upon the fact that people read most eagerly that which they already know, if it is about themselves or their neighbors, if it is a report of something they have been concerned in, a lecture they have heard, a fair, or festival, or wedding...1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The American Newspaper”, in The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner

Forms of barn-raising

pluralbarn-raisings

Questions about barn-raising

What is barn-raising the alternative form of?
Barn-raising is the alternative form of barnraising.

Words near barn-raising in the dictionary

  1. barn swallows
  2. barn-burning
  3. barn-door
  4. barn-doors
  5. barn-like
  6. barn-raising
  7. barn-raisings
  8. barn-star
  9. barn-stars
  10. Barna
  11. Barnabas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barn-raising (page history and authors); barnraising (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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