barn
IPA: bˈɑrn
noun
- (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
- (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.
- (slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
- (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.
- A diminutive of the male given names Barney, Barnabas, Barnaby, or Barnett
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname Diminutive of Barnard (“surname”)
verb
- (transitive) To lay up in a barn.
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Examples of "barn" in Sentences
- The barn was warm and cozy.
- The farmer went into the barn.
- The cow is going out of the barn.
- The building was renamed the Calf Barn.
- The dog brought the cows into the barn.
- The stack of hay is located at the barn.
- *pondurs combynin teh dairee barn an teh nawtee barn*
- The farm laborer became very scared and left the barn.
- The barn was warm and cozy. The barn was warm and cozy.
- And I believe it's going to be what you call a barn-burner.
- Because of the twins, the farm animals make the family leave the barn.
- And the work inside the barn is about bending the limitations of wood.
- Arriving at the remote farm, the boys find nobody home but the barn ablaze.
- The idea of a poor family denied any kind of welfare and having to give birth in a barn is appealing to a bleeding-heart lefty like me.
- The separate 15,000-square-foo t "sports barn" is a faithful reproduction of Assembly Hall, the basketball arena at Indiana University where the Hoosiers play.
- They are piled floor-to-ceiling in storage rooms, and fill up what he calls a "barn," though the structure was erected not for livestock and hay bales but for broken pinball games.
- If you've lived in the West very long, you may be familiar with the term barn dance, but I'll bet you've never heard of this one - a riding demonstration, art show and sale, silent auction, live entertainment and a dinner / dance held in an indoor arena, all during the same evening.
- Across the farmyard from his family's kitchen, inside an old barn, is the tiny workshop where James Swift and his two butchers are turning the finest free-range, rare breed Welsh pigs into the finest free-range, rare-breed charcuterie: sausages, salamis, saucisson, prosciutto, chorizo … the list goes on.