barn
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- noun
- /bɑrn/
:
granero
- The farmer stored all the hay in the barn for the winter months.
- houses and barns
- pole barn
- barn burned
He was helping his son build a barn on his property.
- He was helping his son build a barn on his property.
- So, yeah, the old farmhouse, the farm, the barn to that farmhouse was where this was.
- Like at the moment they're full of corn, My barn's full of corn.
- We found them in the attic of one of my barns sleeping.
- Basically, he was on his own, had this beautiful old farmhouse, barns, you know, some nice land.
- Sitting in my barn, having a meeting and then just do it.
- I'm like looking cows, OK, He opens the barn doors, right?
- But mainly it's like big barns, big shops.
Examples
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The equipment is housed in a pole barn to protect workers from adverse weather.
Academic text (1998) -
It was just a big red barn full of typical stuff.
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I just found a horse in the barn this morning and I went to feed.
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Why run out and close the barn door when the horse is gone?
Fiction book (1990) -
We're standing next to the barn and this is the grass area.
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As Joshua came around the house and started past the barn, he suddenly stopped.
Fiction book (1990) -
He was helping his son build a barn on his property.
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Nathan had seen him come from the barn about an hour earlier and go into the house.
Fiction book (1990) -
On the fourth night, we camped at a farm where the barn and house were still standing.
Fiction book (1990) -
Hopefully, the other horses at Satin's barn will now be safe from the virus.
Synonyms
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A small simple building in a garden for storing tools
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A building on a farm where horses or other animals live and are kept safe
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A small farm building where chickens live
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A small building where people keep chickens
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A building on a farm used to keep animals, crops, or farm tools
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A barn where cows are kept for shelter or milking
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A building on a farm where people keep horses
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A building where cows stay and rest
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A building where cows are kept
A barn where cows stay for shelter and milking
A building, often a barn, where people keep cows
A building where cows are kept
A barn where farmers give part of their crops to the church
A building on a farm where sheep are kept and have their wool cut
Idioms
Compounds
A coarse grass that grows each year, often seen as a weed and used for hay or grazing
A large orange and tan spider often found in barns that makes a new round web each day
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Barn comes from old words bere 'barley' and ærn 'house'. So a barn was a 'barley-house' for keeping grain, hay, or animals.