How do you use the word "barn" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "barn": We stored the hay in the barn. The farmer keeps his tractor in the barn.

Barn Meaning

[ˈbɑɹn]

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.

nounA unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.

Sentence Examples

We stored the hay in the barn.

The farmer keeps his tractor in the barn.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The farmer stored all his hay in the large red ____ located next to the pasture.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The farmer stores all the dry hay and the large tractor in the old ____.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”). More at rest and barley. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits" — 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, line 859:

"Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain." — 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times; Good Thoughts in Worse Times; Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, published 1863, page 165:

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