horse barn
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1.5
- noun
- /hɔrs bɑrn/
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establo
- Ask the Tribal Council to let us have a horse barn!
It smells really bad, like a horse barn.
- It smells really bad, like a horse barn.
Examples
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She walked down to it and stood around the corner of the horse barn, out of the wind.
Fiction book (1998) -
One of my earliest memories is holding a burlap bag while my father cleaned out our horse barn.
Blog text (13) -
A horse barn is nearby to house the Kentucky thoroughbreds that pull the buggies.
Academic text (1996) -
They could look out and see the corral, windmill, and horse barn.
Fiction book (1998) -
As they reached the horse barns, pastures gave way to riding rings with brightly colored jumps set at various heights.
Fiction book (2001) -
The farmer built a new horse barn to provide shelter for his animals during winter.
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After a long day of riding, she took her horse back to the horse barn where it would rest for the night.
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We visited the horse barn to check on the new foals that had just been born.
Synonyms
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1.0
A large farm building for storing hay or keeping animals
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A building on a farm where horses or other animals live and are kept safe
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9.9
A place where people keep horses and carts for rent
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Morphology
The meaning 'a barn for horses' is directly compositional from 'horse' (animal) + 'barn' (farm building), following a common English noun–noun compound pattern. This structure and sense are cross-linguistically common and immediately predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Horse barn is named from the simple picture of a wooden barn with stalls for horses, where the animals eat and sleep. So, the phrase means 'a building on a farm used for housing horses'.