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Plural of barrack

regular plural

The plural of barrack is barracks.

Forms of barrack

Singularbarrack /ˈbæɹ.ək/
Pluralbarracks /ˈbæɹəks/
Countablecountable

Barracks 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
  • There is a large barracks in this town and two other barracks are nearby.From the entry barracks
  • The general inspected the troops and their barracks.From the entry inspect
  • Three armed Hezbollah men appeared from the barracks to their right.2013, Howard E[ugene] Wasdin, Stephen Templin, Easy Day for the Dead: A SEAL Team Six Outcasts Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: Gallery Books…. From the entry run point
  • Our twenty-four-person crew was held at a military barracks on the island and interrogated.2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 426. From the entry Hainan

Meaning of barrack

  1. noun A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
  2. noun A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
  3. noun Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.

Full definition of barrack

Questions about the plural of barrack

What is the plural of barrack?
The plural of barrack is barracks.
Is barrack countable?
Barrack is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barrack (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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