barn
noun
ˈbärn 
1
a
: a usually large building for the storage of farm products or feed and usually for the housing of farm animals or farm equipment
b
: an unusually large and usually bare building
a great barn of a hotel
W. A. White
W. A. White2
: a large building for the housing of a fleet of vehicles (such as trolley cars or trucks)
barnlike
ˈbärn-ˌlīk
adjective barny
ˈbär-nē
adjective 
Example Sentences
They live in a big barn of a house.
Recent Examples on the Web Maybe that result would send McCarthy back home to his sports barn. Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 7 Sep. 2022 Their barn full of chickens, goats, and pigs flooded. Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2022 The showstopping 1950s cast-iron drainboard sink was found by their contractor frozen in the ground under his mom’s barn. Rhonda Reinhart, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2022 Back in the barn of trainer Peter Miller, C Z Rocket won a 6½-furlong allowance in his last race at Del Mar on July 23. San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022 According to the sheriff's office, three children, who are all related, were chasing kittens in a barn when two of them climbed on top of two hay bales stacked on top of each other. Tommy Mcardle, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2022 In the barn, a trailer-turned-walk-in-cooler stores the seed collection. Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2022 So Arm was born 30 years ago in a barn in Cambridge, and the DNA of the company was originally working on a custom design of a chip that was going into the Apple Newton. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022 Piet Paesmans first noticed the phenomenon when his son started singing a tune in the barn during a sluggish insemination session. Fox News, 28 July 2022 See More
Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 7 Sep. 2022 Their barn full of chickens, goats, and pigs flooded. Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2022 The showstopping 1950s cast-iron drainboard sink was found by their contractor frozen in the ground under his mom’s barn. Rhonda Reinhart, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2022 Back in the barn of trainer Peter Miller, C Z Rocket won a 6½-furlong allowance in his last race at Del Mar on July 23. San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022 According to the sheriff's office, three children, who are all related, were chasing kittens in a barn when two of them climbed on top of two hay bales stacked on top of each other. Tommy Mcardle, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2022 In the barn, a trailer-turned-walk-in-cooler stores the seed collection. Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2022 So Arm was born 30 years ago in a barn in Cambridge, and the DNA of the company was originally working on a custom design of a chip that was going into the Apple Newton. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022 Piet Paesmans first noticed the phenomenon when his son started singing a tune in the barn during a sluggish insemination session. Fox News, 28 July 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English bern, from Old English bereærn, from bere barley + ærn house, store
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Phrases Containing barn
Kids Definition
barn
noun
ˈbärn
: a building used for storing grain and hay and for housing farm animals
Medical Definition
barn
noun
ˈbärn
: a unit of area equal to 10−24 square centimeters that is used in nuclear physics for measuring cross section