barn

CEFRC1

[ˈbɑɹn]

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A large farm building used to store crops or keep animals.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • The farmer keeps his tractor in the barn.

  • We stored the hay in the barn.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • [ˈbaɹn]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An arena.

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

  3. A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.

More examples

In context

  • Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.

  • But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits

  • 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.

Synonyms

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

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Origin

noun

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.