barracks
- noun
- /ˈbɛrɪks/
:
cuartel
- Each dorm in the military barracks was equipped with bunk beds and lockers.
Huge, huge stone walls and underground barracks or dungeons.
- Huge, huge stone walls and underground barracks or dungeons.
- The drill sergeants took us back to the the barracks and they're like, you're cleaning these barracks, right.
- Well, next door to the embassy was a military barracks that was on the target list.
- And because of the confusion, the drone ended up striking a living quarter slash slash barracks area where troops were.
- Right now it looks like they are targeting a number of barracks and Iron Dome platforms that are currently in northern occupied Palestine.
- And I remember my first night there and I was laying in this big, this is huge room that had like tons of, you know, racks beds, you know, bunk beds just lined up and down like Army barracks.
- Yeah, it was when I got to the barracks after that, the interview.
- But he snuck in when I was in the barracks room, had me confined.
- And I'm like, this is down in like the the castle barracks part.
- Thunderous cracks snapped through the barracks, the estate, through the very foundations of the court.
- And I'm just watching the barracks, waiting to watch everyone walk away and you're just formation.
- And we were able to kind of get the National Army Reserve there, let us get on board their barracks.
Examples
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The soldiers returned to the barracks after a long day of training.
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The eastern part to our left contains the barracks of the enlisted men.
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Within, one will find a central structure with barracks and storage rooms.
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For two days we sat there in the barracks while the European bombs fell on Tripoli.
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We flew to Carlisle Barracks, PA OK, the Army War College.
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The drill sergeants took us back to the the barracks and they're like, you're cleaning these barracks, right.
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New recruits are often nervous as they adjust to life in the barracks.
Synonyms
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6.8
A group of soldiers and the fort where they are based
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2.8
Rooms or small buildings where people live inside a larger place
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3.9
A simple building with beds for several people, often used by workers or guests
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8.6
A place in a home where soldiers stay
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9.9
A military camp where soldiers live temporarily
A building where soldiers live and sleep
A building where soldiers live and sleep
Places on a military base where soldiers live
Rooms or buildings where a group of people live, like soldiers
A group of small temporary houses where soldiers or workers live
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Barracks comes from an old French and Italian word baracca that meant 'hut' or 'shelter'. So a barracks is a place of simple buildings where soldiers live and sleep together.