Meaning

5 senses

  1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.

    Scheune, Scheuer, Stadel

    ови́нovín, амба́рambár, сара́йsaráj

    клу́няklúnja, амба́рambár, сара́йsaráj

    an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

  2. A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.

    Barn

    барнbarn

  3. (informal)An arena.

    Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.

  4. (slang)A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.

  5. A child.

Examples

265 sentences

  1. Tom and his friends painted the barn.

    Том і його друзі пофарбували сарай.

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  2. I saw Tom and Mary kissing behind the barn.

    Я бачив, як Том та Мері цілувалися за сараєм.

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  3. How did you convince Tom to help us paint the barn?

    Як ти переконав Тома допомогти нам пофарбувати хлів?

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  4. We'll carry it to the barn.

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  5. I've been hiding behind the barn.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
building:
Русский
By meaning 2
building:
unit:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
building:
unit:

Origin

From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Ol

From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”).

From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, progeny”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate to West Frisian bern (“child, children”), Middle Dutch baren (“child”).

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Forms

plural: barns
Singularbarn
Pluralbarns

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
child:bairn
Close in meaning
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Word family

51 related words
Derivedattobarnbarnboardbarnburnerbarnburningbarn catbarn coatbarn dancebarn dancingbarndominiumbarn doorbarn doorsbarn eggbarn findbarnfloorbarnfulbarnlessbarnlikebarnmatebarn owlbarnraisingbarn redbarn salebarnstarbarnstorm

Collocations

8 patterns
  • in the barn
  • behind the barn
  • shut the barn
  • the barn door
  • barn door after
  • paint the barn
  • barn door
  • the barn is

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
barleyB2barmanB1barmybarnaclebarney
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