barrack
/ˈbæɹ.ək/UK/ˈbæɹ.ək/
barrack noun: a building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
Noun
barrack (plural barracks)
- A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
- Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy.1829, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 4, page 67
- How do you distinguish between the disciplinary barracks and the penitentiary? Where are the disciplinary barracks ?1919, House Committee on Military Affairs, Army Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 8287, H.R. 8068, H.R....
- A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
- Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
- A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
- A police station.
Verb (1)
barrack (third-person singular simple present barracks, present participle barracking, simple past and past participle barracked)
Verb (2)
barrack (third-person singular simple present barracks, present participle barracking, simple past and past participle barracked)
- To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
- I knew that he had been barracked at times, but I did not realise that he was so sensitive.1934, Herbert Chapman, Herbert Chapman on Football, page 140
- Some people stopped concentrating on the piece altogether, some started barracking and heckling, while others began chatting to one another.2006, Ramsay Burt, Judson Dance Theater: Performative traces, page 192
- To cheer for or support a team.
- The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.1988, J. A. Mangan, editor, Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914, page 266
- I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.2009, Roger Averill, Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey, page 115
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Barrack
Barrack (plural Barracks)
- A surname.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Barrack
Barrack
- A male given name from Arabic.
barrack meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
barrack in Hindi
- a building for soldiers
- छावनी chāvnī, कोट koṭ
barrack in Tamil
- படை வீடு, பாடி, படைவீடு
barrack in Urdu
- a building for soldiers
- چھاؤنی chāvnī, کوٹ koṭ
barrack in Bengali
- সেনানিবাস
More languagesFewer languages
- barrack in Telugu
- బారకాసు bārakāsu
- barrack in Malayalam
- പട്ടാളത്താവളം, സൈനികർ താമസിക്കുന്ന കെട്ടിടം
- barrack in Kannada
- ಗೇಲಿಮಾಡು, ಅಪಹಾಸ್ಯ ಮಾಡು, ಭಾಷಣದ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಗಲಭೆ ಮಾಡು, ಬೂತಿಕ್ಕು
- barrack in Gujarati
- છાવણી chāvṇī
- barrack in Nepali
- छाउनी chāunī
- barrack in Arabic
- ثُكْنَة ṯukna, قَشْلَة qašla
- barrack in Malay
- berek
- barrack in Indonesian
- barak
- barrack in Persian
- سربازخانه sarbâzxâne
- barrack in Thai
- โรงทหาร roong-tá-hǎan, ค่ายทหาร kâai-tá-hǎan
- barrack in Vietnamese
- doanh trại, trại lính
- barrack in Myanmar
- စစ်တန်းလျား cactan:lya:
Examples of barrack in a sentence
- I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.1996, Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Brian Murdoch, All Quiet on the Western Front, page 129:
- Dear old Dennis, he had no idea the barracking he and his fellow Arsenal directors suffered at every home game came from Spurs supporters.2009, Jimmy Greaves, The Heart of the Game, unnumbered page:
- ‘So to me barracking for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody barracked for Essendon.’2010, John Cash, Joy Damousi, Footy Passions, page 75:
Synonyms of barrack
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Forms of barrack
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | barracks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | barracks |
| present participle | barracking |
| past participle | barracked |
| past | barracked |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Barracks |
Origin of barrack
Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca or Catalan barraca, which is of uncertain origin. It is probably either a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar”), of unclear origin, or a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”) from Celtiberian or Paleo-Hispanic.
Scottish habitational surname.
Variant of Barack.
Words formed from barrack
Phrases with barrack
Questions about barrack
- What does barrack mean?
- Barrack means a building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
- What is barrack in Hindi?
- Barrack in Hindi is छावनी (chāvnī), कोट (koṭ). See Barrack meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use barrack in a sentence?
- I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.
- What part of speech is barrack?
- Barrack can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce barrack?
- Barrack is pronounced /ˈbæɹ.ək/ (UK).
- What is the plural of barrack?
- The plural of barrack is barracks.
Words near barrack in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: barrack (page history and authors); Barrack (page history and authors); barrack (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barrack (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barrack (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barrack (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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