barn

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Pronunciation

• enPR: bärn, IPA: /bɑɹn/
  • (AU, Boston) IPA: [baːn]
  • (New York) IPA: [bɒən]
  • (New Zealand) IPA: [bɐːn]
  • (RP) IPA: [bɑːn]
  • (GA) IPA: [bɑɹn]

Noun

barn (plural barns)

1. (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
2. (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
3. (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.

   Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.

Translations

• French: grange, fenil
• German: Scheune, (regional) Scheuer, Stadel, Stall, Schuppen
• Italian: granaio, fienile, stalla (for animals)
• Portuguese: celeiro
• Russian: ови́н
• Spanish: granero barn for crops, establo barn for livestock, galpón

Translations

• French: barn
• German: barn
• Italian: barn
• Portuguese: barn
• Russian: барн
• Spanish: barn

Verb

barn (barns, present participle barning; past and past participle barned)

1. (transitive) To lay up in a barn.

Noun

barn (plural barns)

1. (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.

Synonyms

• (child) bairn

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