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barn
1[ bahrn ]
noun
- a building for storing hay, grain, etc., and often for housing livestock.
- a very large garage for buses, trucks, etc.; carbarn.
verb (used with object)
- to store (hay, grain, etc.) in a barn.
barn
2[ bahrn ]
noun
- a unit of nuclear cross section, equal to 10 −24 square centimeter. : b
barn
1/ ɑː /
noun
- a large farm outbuilding, used chiefly for storing hay, grain, etc, but also for housing livestock
- 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
barn
2/ ɑː /
noun
- a unit of nuclear cross section equal to 10 –28square metre b
Other Word Forms
- l adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of barn1
Word History and Origins
Origin of barn1
Origin of barn2
Idioms and Phrases
see can't hit the broad side of a barn ; lock the barn door after the horse is stolen .Example Sentences
“MC5 were playing on the radio. He will ultimately be returned to his home, the farm in Pennsylvania, where he insisted he was to be ‘thrown in the barn.’”
Billy and Tina will be joining five other Asian elephants at the Tulsa Zoo, which recently expanded their elephant complex to include a 36,650-square-foot barn and a 10-acre wooded preserve.
In the converted barn's main room, Elizabethan ballads drifted through smoke-thick air as someone scattered chrysanthemum petals across a sheepskin rug.
But Corder shot and killed Miss Marten, burying her in the barn.
One of the first scenes the 21-year-old British actor shot for Season 2 is the fight in a barn seen in Sunday’s premiere.
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