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barnraisings

barnraisings is the plural 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

Questions about barnraisings

What is barnraisings the plural of?
Barnraisings is the plural of barnraising.

Words near barnraisings in the dictionary

  1. barnmates
  2. Barno
  3. Barnoldswick
  4. Barnos
  5. barnraising
  6. barnraisings
  7. barnroom
  8. barns
  9. Barns Green
  10. barns-breaking
  11. barns-breakings

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