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barrow

/ˈbæɹəʊ//ˈbæɹoʊ/

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barrow noun: a mountain.

Noun (1)

barrow (plural barrows)

  1. (obsolete) A mountain.
  2. (UK) A hill.
  3. A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
    • Meronym: dolmen
    • “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow?”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47
    Synonyms:
    See burial mound § Synonyms
  4. A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.

Noun (2)

barrow (plural barrows)

  1. (UK) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
    • The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    • In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving...2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35
  2. A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.

Noun (3)

barrow (plural barrows)

  1. (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.

Noun (4)

barrow (plural barrows)

  1. A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.

Proper noun capitalized: Barrow

Barrow (countable and uncountable, plural Barrows)

  1. A surname.
  2. Former name of Utqiagvik: the borough seat of North Slope Borough, Alaska, renamed in 2016.
  3. An unincorporated community in Greene County, Illinois.
  4. A civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, which includes the settlements of Great Barrow and Little Barrow.
  5. A civil parish with a town council in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, which replaced the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness on 1 April 2023.
  6. A hamlet in Boddington parish, Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8824).
  7. A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, previously in Wiswell parish (OS grid ref SD7338).
  8. A village and civil parish (without a council) in Rutland (OS grid ref SK8915).
  9. A hamlet and civil parish in Much Wenlock ward, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ6500).
  10. A hamlet in Charlton Musgrove parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST7232).
  11. A hamlet in North Wootton parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST5541).
  12. A hamlet in Wentworth parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK3798).
  13. A village and civil parish (served by Barrow cum Denham Parish Council) in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL7663).
  14. A river in eastern Ireland, which flows from County Laois, via County Kildare, County Kilkenny, County Carlow, County Wexford and County Waterford to Waterford Harbour.

barrow meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

barrow in Hindi

बैरो

barrow in Tamil

பார்ரோ

barrow in Marathi

बॅरो

barrow in Urdu

پہاڑی, ٹیلا
More languagesFewer languages
barrow in Bengali
ঠেলাগাড়ী ṭhelagaṛi, ঠেলা ṭhela
barrow in Telugu
బ్యారో, బార్రో
barrow in Malayalam
കൈവണ്ടി
barrow in Kannada
ಕಯ್ಬಂಡಿ
barrow in Punjabi
ਬੈਰੋ
barrow in Gujarati
હાથગાડી hāthgāḍī
barrow in Odia
ବ୍ଯ଼ାରୋ
barrow in Assamese
ঠেলা thela, ঠেলাগাড়ী thelagari
barrow in Nepali
ब्यारो, बैरो
barrow in Malay
monggok
barrow in Indonesian
kubur prasejarah

Examples of barrow in a sentence

  • A costermonger's barrow is also known as a shallow.
  • Now the grandchildren had been dumped on Restell, looking like changelings from a fairy barrow.
  • “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow?

All 20 example sentences with barrow

Synonyms of barrow

  • See burial mound § Synonyms

Forms of barrow

Noun
pluralbarrows
alternative Geordiebarra
Proper noun
pluralBarrows

Plural of barrow: barrows

Origin of barrow

From Middle English berwe, bergh, from Old English beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow, burial place”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“hill, mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise up, ascend; to be elevated, up high”). Doublet of berg and bergh. Cognates Cognate with Scots burrow (“mound, tumulus, barrow”), North Frisian Bārig, beerch, beeri, beerj, berag, berig, berri, bärj (“mountain”), Saterland Frisian Bierich, Bíerig, Bäirch (“mountain”), West Frisian berch (“mountain”), Cimbrian pèrge (“mountain”), Dutch berg (“mountain”), German Berg (“mountain”), German Low German Barg (“mountain”), Limburgish berg, Bärrech (“hill, mountain”), Luxembourgish Bierg (“mountain”), Mòcheno pèrg (“mountain”), Yiddish באַרג (barg, “mountain”), Danish bjerg (“mountain”), Elfdalian bjärr (“hill, mountain”), Faroese berg, bjarg (“cliff”), bjørg (“cliffs”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish berg (“mountain”); also Northern Luri برگ (berg, “mountain”), Polish brzeg (“bank, shore”), Russian бе́рег (béreg, “bank, shore”).

From Middle English barowe, barwe, barewe, from Old English bearwe (“basket, handbarrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *barwā, *barwijā, from Proto-Germanic *barwǭ, *barwijǭ (“stretcher, bier”) (compare Low German Berwe, Old Norse barar (plural), Middle High German radebere (“wheelbarrow”)), from *beraną (“to bear”). More at bear.

From Middle English barow, bareȝ, bareh, from Old English bearg, bearh (“boar”), from Proto-West Germanic *barug, *barah, from Proto-Germanic *barugaz, *barahaz. Cognate with Old Frisian barch, Old Saxon barug, Old High German barug (German Borg), Old Norse bǫrgr.

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Questions about barrow

What does barrow mean?
Barrow means a mountain.
What is barrow in Hindi?
Barrow in Hindi is बैरो. See Barrow meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is barrow?
Barrow can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce barrow?
Barrow is pronounced /ˈbæɹəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of barrow?
The plural of barrow is barrows.

Words near barrow in the dictionary

  1. Barroso
  2. Barrosos
  3. Barrouallie
  4. Barrovian
  5. Barrovians
  6. barrow
  7. Barrow Bay
  8. barrow boy
  9. barrow boys
  10. Barrow County
  11. barrow crossing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barrow (page history and authors); Barrow (page history and authors); barrow (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barrow (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barrow (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barrow (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ঠেলা (Bengali) (page history and authors); barrow (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barrow (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barrow (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barrow (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); હાથગાડી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); barrow (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barrow (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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