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Barn
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- 1 A diminutive of the male given names Barney, Barnabas, Barnaby, or Barnett.
- 2 A unisex given name transferred from the surname; diminutive of Barnard (“surname”).
- 1 A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
"One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions."
- 2 A child. dialectal
- 3 an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals wordnet
- 4 A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
- 5 (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter wordnet
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- 6 An arena. informal
"Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn."
- 7 A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost. slang
- 1 To lay up in a barn. transitive
"But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits"
Etymology
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”). More at rest and barley. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.
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”). More at rest and barley. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.
From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, progeny”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate to Frisian bern ("child/children"), Middle Dutch baren (“child”).
* Clipping of Barney. * Clipping of Barnett. * Clipping of Barnabas. * Clipping of Barnaby. * Clipping of Barnard.
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