Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One whose business is to cut hair and to shave or trim beards.
- v. To cut the hair of.
- v. To shave or trim the beard of.
- v. To work as a barber.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One whose occupation is to shave the beard and cut and dress the hair.
- n. Same as surgeon-fish.
- To shave and dress the hair of.
- n. A fish, Cæsioperca rasor, of the family Serranidæ. Also called red perch.
- n. A gale of wind with damp snow or sleet and spray that freezes upon every object, especially the beard and hair. Said to be called berber by wharfmen in New York.
Wiktionary
- n. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers’ hair and beards.
- n. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
- v. To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
- v. US, slang To chatter, talk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
- v. To shave and dress the beard or hair of.
- n. (Meteor.), Canada A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, esp. one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; -- so named from the cutting ice spicules.
WordNet 3.0
- v. perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of
- n. United States composer (1910-1981)
- n. a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from Latin barba. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French barbour, from Medieval Latin barbātōr, from Latin barba, beard; see bhardh-ā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The man with the shears eschews the term barber, preferring either artist or sculptor, but his role at Truth and Soul Black Stars is even more expansive: adviser, storyteller, protector, father figure to fatherless youths, friend.”
“I wonder, too, whether these lumbering uses of the term barber originally had any connection with the notion of poor cutting; the connotations of barber in informal speech have not always been the most favorable.”
“Another statesman came into the shop and said, Hello, Sir John, I guess the barber is the only man in Canada that can have you by the nose?”
“For me, the ideal barber is the one who doesn't talk and the ideal accommodation is clean, comfortable and anonymous.”
The Huffington Post: Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of the Hudson River Valley, NY
“I went to bathe and a bit of hair fell out, and last night we called the barber, Chávez told politicians during a swearing-in ceremony for new cabinet ministers.”
“If any barber is good enough to shave your neck, and then I am, too.”
“When I called the barber shop, they told me that in addition to Landry, their clients have included siblings of Clinton Portis and Fred Davis, and that all three players and many more have their photos hanging on the wall.”
“There will be Barack portraits hanging in barber shops in Milwaukee, Birmingham and Bozeman, as well as Tokyo and Buenos Aires, perhaps even Cairo and Jakarta.”
“Compared to full salon haircuts, having a buzz cut at the barber is inexpensive: $10 to $25 depending on the neighbourhood.”
“I called the barber in question, Joe Tourrenoueva, who has been my barber for 40 years, since way back when he charged $20.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘barber’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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winds of the world
local wind names
chinook, foehn, gallego, sirocco, harmattan, fremantle doctor, tramontane, mistral, santa ana, diablo, descuernacabras, dust devil and 119 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Inner B
Words with the letter b within the word, not just as the initial or last letter.
remember, maybe, able, unable, nimble, cable, reusable, thimble, cymbal, capable, tremble, enable and 143 more...
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When I'm Feeling Windy
wiiiiiiiind
sirocco, zephyr, fiat, tramontana, typhoon, cyclone, hurricane, haboob, khamsin, aajej, africo, alm and 125 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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hairstyles
bun, bobtail, ponytail, cornrow, odango*, updo, bouffant, plait, braid, bunches, buzzcut, combover and 331 more...
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Trades Featured in R. Campbell's The ...
Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
...woollen draper, wood monger, wood cutter, wine cooper, woolsted man, wool card maker, wool comber, wool stapler, wire drawer, whalebone-man, whip maker, weaver and 343 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 151
quiz, quiz master, barber, ratings, buzzer, Lake Superior, author, round, Great Lakes, Supreme Court, trick, meteor and 15 more...
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Vintage Physic
Words that relate to the history of western medicine!
chymist, apothecary, purgative, scarificator, leech, humour, barber, phrenology, trepanning, alienism, hysteria, nostrum and 1 more...
Tweets
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