Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large farm building used for storing farm products and sheltering livestock.
- n. A large shed for the housing of vehicles, such as railroad cars.
- n. A particularly large, typically bare building: lived in a barn of a country house.
- n. Physics A unit of area equal to 10-24 square centimeters, used to measure cross sections in nuclear physics.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To store up in a barn.
- n. A child.
Wiktionary
- n. agriculture A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
- n. nuclear physics A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres.
- n. informal, Canada, ice hockey An arena.
- n. dialect, parts of Northern England A child.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.
- v. obsolete To lay up in a barn.
- n. obsolete A child. See bairn.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
- n. (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
Etymologies
- From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn ("child, son, offspring, prodigy") and Old Norse barn ("child"). More at bairn. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English bern, from Old English berærn : bere, barley. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“*pondurs combynin teh dairee barn an teh nawtee barn*”
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“If you've lived in the West very long, you may be familiar with the term barn dance, but I'll bet you've never heard of this one - a riding demonstration, art show and sale, silent auction, live entertainment and a dinner / dance held in an indoor arena, all during the same evening.”
“And the work inside the barn is about bending the limitations of wood.”
How to put on an f---ing Mamet play in nineteen f---ing days
“The idea of a poor family denied any kind of welfare and having to give birth in a barn is appealing to a bleeding-heart lefty like me.”
“They are piled floor-to-ceiling in storage rooms, and fill up what he calls a "barn," though the structure was erected not for livestock and hay bales but for broken pinball games.”
“The separate 15,000-square-foo t "sports barn" is a faithful reproduction of Assembly Hall, the basketball arena at Indiana University where the Hoosiers play.”
“Across the farmyard from his family's kitchen, inside an old barn, is the tiny workshop where James Swift and his two butchers are turning the finest free-range, rare breed Welsh pigs into the finest free-range, rare-breed charcuterie: sausages, salamis, saucisson, prosciutto, chorizo … the list goes on.”
The Guardian: Best UK Food Producer 2010: Trealy Farm, Monmouthshire
“Do you think keeping a teenage monster locked in a barn is going to end well?”
“Quail on a covey rise and flocks of doves were always an invitation for someone whocouldn't hit the side of a barn from the inside to claim a bird that fell in your lap.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘barn’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
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Redundancing
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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
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Words that start with B
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Pure science
good words related to math, physics, logic and other fields that I don't know enough of, but like anyway...
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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.
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
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bearfax december 2006
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
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HorsesintheSouth
Words pertaining to horses, equines, equestrians
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The Measure of Man
Unusual, arcane, or obscure units of measure
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for barn.
reesetee A unit of area for measuring the reaction cross-section (generally different from the geometric cross-section) of atomic nuclei and subatomic particles in the study of their interactions with other nuclei or particles. A barn is equal to 10 to 24 square cm. The name, coined by U.S. scientists, is derived from the phrase "side of a barn"--something easy to hit. Nov 6, 2007