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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024barn1 /bɑrn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a building for storing hay and grain, and often for keeping animals.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024barn1 (bärn),USA pronunciation n. - a building for storing hay, grain, etc., and often for housing livestock.
- a very large garage for buses, trucks, etc.;
carbarn.
v.t. - to store (hay, grain, etc.) in a barn.
- bef. 950; Middle English bern, Old English berern (bere (see barley1) + ern, ǣrn house, cognate with Old Frisian fīaern cowhouse, Old High German erin, Gothic razn, Old Norse rann house; compare ransack, rest1)
- Physicsa unit of nuclear cross section, equal to 10-24 square centimeter. Abbr.: b
- special use of barn1 1945–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: barn /bɑːn/ n - a large farm outbuilding, used chiefly for storing hay, grain, etc, but also for housing livestock
- US Canadian a large shed for sheltering railroad cars, trucks, etc
- any large building, esp an unattractive one
- (modifier) relating to a system of poultry farming in which birds are allowed to move freely within a barn: barn eggs
Etymology: Old English beren, from bere barley + ærn room; see barley1 barn /bɑːn/ n - a unit of nuclear cross section equal to 10–28 square metre
Symbol: b
Etymology: 20th Century: from barn1; so called because of the relatively large cross section |