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barr

US/bɑɹ/

barr verb: to make the sound of an elephant. Also the obsolete spelling of bar.

Verb

barr (third-person singular simple present barrs, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

  1. (obsolete) To make the sound of an elephant.
    • He gave us also the example of the Philosopher, who, when he thought most seriously to have withdrawn himself unto a solitary Privacy, far from the rufling Clutterments of the tumultuous and confused World, the better to improve his Theory, to contrive, comment, and ratiocinate, was...1737, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais

Proper noun capitalized: Barr

Barr

  1. An English and Scottish surname.
  2. A commune in Bas-Rhin department, Alsace, Grand Est, France.
  3. A village in South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX2794).
  4. A locality in Bishop's Hull parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST1925).
  5. A township in Daviess County, Indiana, United States.
  6. A township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Also used as

barr is also the obsolete spelling of bar.

barr meaning in Tamil

barr in Tamil

பார்ர்

Forms of barr

Verb
third-person singular presentbarrs
present participlebarring
past participlebarred
pastbarred
Noun
pluralbarrs

Origin of barr

From French barrir (“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”), from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō, from Latin barrus (“elephant”).

See bar.

As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from barr (“height, hill, tip”). As an English surname, from bar.

Words formed from barr

Phrases with barr

Questions about barr

What does barr mean?
Barr means to make the sound of an elephant.
What is barr in Tamil?
Barr in Tamil is பார்ர். See Barr meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is barr?
Barr can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce barr?
Barr is pronounced /bɑɹ/ (US).
What is the past tense of barr?
The past tense of barr is barred.

Words near barr in the dictionary

  1. barquette molds
  2. barquette mould
  3. barquette moulds
  4. barquettes
  5. barquillite
  6. barr
  7. Barr bodies
  8. Barr body
  9. Barr trilobite
  10. Barr trilobites
  11. barra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barr (page history and authors); Barr (page history and authors); barr (Tamil, 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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