Barber

Definitions: Barber

Barber

Noun

1. A hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade.

Verb

1. Perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of.

Date "barber" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	A brilliant conversationalist, who occasionally shaves and cuts hair. Syn. for Phonograph. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Bible	Barber Found only once, in Ezek. 5:1, where reference is made to the Jewish custom of shaving the head as a sign of mourning. The Nazarites were untouched by the razor from their birth (Num. 6:5). Comp. Judg. 16:19. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Literature	Barber Every barber knows that "Omnibus notum tonsoribus." Horace: 1 Satires, VII. 3. In Rome the tonstrinæ or barbers' shops were the fashionable resort of loungers and idlers. Here every scandal was known, and all the talk of the town was repeated. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Occupations	Provides customers with barbering services: Cuts, shapes, trims, and tapers hair, using clippers, comb, blow-out gun, and scissors. Applies lather and shaves beard or shapes hair contour (outline) on temple and neck, using razor. Performs other tonsorial services, such as applying hairdressings or lotions, dyeing, shampooing, singeing, or styling hair, and massaging face, neck, or scalp. Records service charge on ticket or receives payment. Cleans work area and work tools. Orders supplies. May sell lotions, tonics, or other cosmetic supplies. (references)
Personal Care & Hotels	A person whose occupation is that of shaving, trimming, and dressing the hair. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A barber is someone who cuts hair. In previous times, barbers also performed surgery.

In some countries, barbers hang out a pole with helical stripes; the red stripe represents the blood of surgery.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Wind	Gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Barber

English words defined with "barber": barber chair, Barber fish, Barbered, Barbering ♦ cut, cutting, cutting off ♦ job ♦ Poller ♦ Sweeney Todd ♦ Todd, Tonsor. (references)

Specialty definitions using "barber": ARTIST ♦ BARBER APPRENTICE, Barber Poet, Barber Pole, Barbier ♦ Diable, DIE BARBER, dispensary attendant, DOG BATHER ♦ Great Men ♦ LION, LOCK ASSEMBLER ♦ Mambrino's Helmet, Mirror of Knighthood ♦ Russell's Paradox ♦ SEVILLE, SHAMPOO, Striations, SUPPLY CLERK ♦ WIG DRESSER. (references)

Etymologies containing "barber": Poller ♦ tonsorial. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	There's always barber college. (Road House; writing credit: David Lee Henry) And it's not that he didn't want to rape the environment and exploit the workers, I'm sure he did. It's just that as a barber, he didn't have that much opportunity! (All of Me; writing credit: Edwin Davis; Phil Alden Robinson) I'm the Barber of Seville! (Our Gang Follies of 1938; writing credit: H.T. Bishop; Gerald Elliott) Well, I don't want to spend the rest of my life working in a barber shop. (Hands Across the Table; writing credit: Vi�a Delmar; Norman Krasna)
Clever	I wanted to be a barber, but I just couldn't cut it. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Den Meget talende barber (1974) The Barber of Stamford Hill (1962) Barber Shop Ballads (1945) The Barber Shop (1933) Busy Barber (1932)
Song Titles	Down At the Barber Shop (performing artist: The Wombles)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2000-2005 Outlook for Beauty and Barber Shops in Africa (reference) The 2001 Report on Beauty and Barber Shops: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Beauty and Barber Shops: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference) The World Market for Furniture Seats and Their Parts Excluding Chairs with Rotating Movements Such As Dental and Barber Chairs: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Barber of Seville (The Black Dog Opera Library) (reference) Barber of Seville and the Marriage of Figaro (reference) Barber Shop Songs (reference) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Applause Musical Library) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) / Dario Fo, Zedda, Larmore, Croft, Netherlands Opera (reference) Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Non-musical Version) (reference) Rossini - II Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) / Abbado, Prey, Berganza, Alva (reference) Wealthy Barber with David Chilton: Volume 1 (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Ravel, Milhaud, Barber, Ligeti - Imbroglio Wind Quintet (reference) Coney Island Baby: Top 20 Barber Shop Quartets (reference) Samuel Ramey - Ev'ry time we say goodbye (songs of Barber, Bowles, Foster, Gershwin & Porter) (reference) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (1979 Original Broadway Cast) - Highlights [CAST RECORDING] (reference) Hanson Conducts Barber, Piston, Griffes, McCauley, Kennan, Bergsma (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Skip Barber Racing (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A trip to the royal barber - all Pollywogs must profess a love of Shellbacks A 1985 crossing of the line on the MALCOLM BALDRIGE.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Trinette Bell (right), NRCS Soil Conservationist, assists Maeola Barber (left) with fencing around a livestock area. [Slide 97CS3131].Credit: Bob Nichols.
	A. E. Barber, M.D.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 17, Dijon, France. : Barber shop.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 5, Auteuil, France. : Patients at an open air barber shop outside of one of the tents.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Woman being bled by a barber surgeon].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[A barber shop at the front, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Interior scene of a barber treating a man's foot] : [Surgery] / [A.] Brower pinxot Corn. Visscher fecit.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Clippers; hair; clip; clipping; cutting; cut; Army; Navy; Marines; barber; shave; trim; sideburns.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	This barber had made him aggressive.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Some of the international companies represented in the Saudi market include Caterpillar, Barber Green, Pettibone, Dresser Industries, Liebherr, Euclid, Atlas-Copco, GMC, Ingersoll-Rand, Wabco, Komatsu, Hitachi and Samsung. (references)
Economic History	Ghana	The GIPC law specifies areas of investment reserved for Ghanaians, namely, petty trading, operation of taxi services (except when a non-Ghanaian has a minimum fleet of 10 vehicles), pool betting businesses and lotteries (except soccer pools), beauty salons and barber shops. (references)
Political Economy	GHANA	Services Barriers: The Ghanaian investment code proscribes foreign participation in the following sectors: small-scale wholesale and retail sales, taxi and car rental services with fleets of fewer than ten vehicles, lotteries, and barber and beauty shops. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	In the eighties, Taylor had a twice-weekly segment on a Denver television station, and the clip shown in an ad run by Democrats shows Taylor applying lotions to the face of a man sitting in the barber chair with Taylor discussing techniques.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Barber" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.57% of the time. "Barber" is used about 321 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	58.57%	188	22,417
Noun (proper)	41.43%	133	27,614
Total	100.00%	321	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "barber" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Barber	Last name	32,000	335
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "barber": barber bug fever ♦ barber chair ♦ barber chirurgeon ♦ barber County ♦ Barber fish ♦ barber pole ♦ barber shop ♦ Barber Surgeons ♦ barber surgery. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "barber": Barber-lomax, barber-shop, barber-style, barber-surgeon, barber-surgeons.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "barber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		haarkapper (hairdresser), barbier. (various references)

Albanian		berber (coiffeur, hairdresser, shaver). (various references)

Arabic		‏حلق ل, ‏حلاق (coiffure, stylist). (various references)

Asturian		barberu. (various references)

Bemba		kabeya wa mushishi. (various references)

Bulgarian		бръснар. (various references)

Catalan		perruquer (hairdresser). (various references)

Cebuano		barbero. (various references)

Chamorro		batberu. (various references)

Chinese		理髮師 , 理发师. (various references)

Cornish		barver. (various references)

Czech		holiè (hairdresser). (various references)

Danish		frisør (hairdresser). (various references)

Dutch		kapper (Borneo camphorwood, camphorwood, caper, capur, cutter, hairdresser, kapur), barbier. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua		agchacuchuc. (various references)

Esperanto		barbisto, barbiro, razisto, frizisto (hairdresser). (various references)

Faeroese		hárskeri. (various references)

Farsi		سلمانی کردن , سلمانی شدن , سلمانی (Haircut, Shaver). (various references)

Finnish		parturi. (various references)

French		coiffeur, barbier. (various references)

Frisian		hierknipper (hairdresser). (various references)

German		Friseur (coiffeur, haircutter, hairdresser, hair-dresser, stylist), Herrenfriseur (men's hairdresser), barbier (shaver). (various references)

Greek		κουρέασ. (various references)

Hebrew		�'לב. (various references)

Hungarian		fodrász (coiffeur, hairdresser), borbély (flash-house), férfi fodrász. (various references)

Indonesian		barbir, tukang cukur, pemangkas (cutter). (various references)

Inuktitut		nujaijaqti. (various references)

Italian		parrucchiere (hair dresser, haircutter, hairdresser, stylist), barbiere (haircutter, men's hairdresser). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		髪床 (barbershop), 理髪師 , 理容師 , 床屋 , ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, Berkeley, berkelium, Berkley, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, berth, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, birdie, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, burst, buying power, by, bye, C major, crowbar, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, verse, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality), 散髪屋 (barber shop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		バーバー , さ�"ぱつや (barber shop), かみど�" (barbershop), りようし, りはつし, と�"や. (various references)

Korean		이발사. (various references)

Macedonian		berber. (various references)

Manx		baareyder (barer, clipper, clipper person, cutter, shaver). (various references)

Maya		koos. (various references)

Norwegian		frisør (hairdresser), barbermester. (various references)

Papago		hihktham. (various references)

Papiamen		barbero (hairdresser). (various references)

Pig Latin		arberbay.(various references)

Polish		fryzjer (hairdresser). (various references)

Portuguese		barbeiro (men's hairdresser, shaver), cabeleireiro (coiffeur, hairdo, hairdresser, hairdryer). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian		barbeiro. (various references)

Provencal		barbièr. (various references)

Romanian		frizer (hairdresser). (various references)

Romansch		barbier. (various references)

Romany		mooravnò. (various references)

Ruanda		kimwozi. (various references)

Russian		парикмахер (coiffeur, hairdresser). (various references)

Samoan		tagata otiulu. (various references)

Scottish		bearradair. (various references)

Sepedi		mmeodi. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		berberin (shaver), berber. (various references)

Shona		mugeri. (various references)

Sicilian		tagghiacapiddi. (various references)

Spanish		peluquero (coiffeur, haircutter, hairdresser), barbero (bib, shaver). (various references)

Swazi		um-gundzi. (various references)

Swedish		frisör (coiffeur, hairdresser, stylist), hårfrisör (hairdresser), barberare. (various references)

Tagalog		barbéro. (various references)

Thai		ช่างตั�"ผม. (various references)

Turkish		berber (hairdresser, shaver). (various references)

Turkmen		dellek. (various references)

Ukranian		сильний вітер під час морозу, туман над водою в морозяний день, перукар (coiffeur, haircutter, hairdresser). (various references)

Vietnamese		thợ cắt tóc b� n dân thiên hạ ai m� chả biết chuyện đó, thợ cạo. (various references)

Welsh		barfwr, barbwr, eilliwr (shaver). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	kinda, mun�ub. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	barba, tonsor, tonsorem, tonsores, tonsoribus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "barber": barbered, barbering, barberries, barberry, barbers, barbershop, barbershops. (additional references)
	Words containing "barber": unbarbered. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Barber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arber, arbre, Arbrex, Arzberg, Babbar, baber, Babera, Bambera, Bambur, Baraba, barba, Barbak, Barbar, barbe, barberd, Barberi, barbero, barbery, Barbey, barbi, Barbiere, Barbox, Barbro, Barbur, Bariba, barner, barrer, Barver, Batbayar, berbel, berberi, borbe, Braben, Bradbeer, burbar. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "barber" (pronounced bÄ"rber)
4	-Ä" r b er	Arbor, arbour, Harbor, harbour.
3	-r b er	absorber.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-r-r"
	-1 letter: barbe, barer, barre, rebar.
	-2 letters: abbe, babe, barb, bare, bear, brae, rare, rear.
	-3 letters: arb, are, bar, bra, brr, ear, ebb, era, err, reb.
	-4 letters: ab, ae, ar, ba, be, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-b-e-r-r"
	+1 letter: barbers, crabber, drabber, grabber, rabbler.
	+2 letters: absorber, barbered, barberry, barbwire, barrable, bayberry, brabbler, crabbers, crabbier, grabbers, grabbier, grabbler, jabberer, rabbiter, rabblers, reabsorb, rehabber.
	+3 letters: absorbers, baneberry, barbarize, barbecuer, barbering, barbwires, bearberry, blaeberry, brabblers, bramblier, grabblers, jabberers, rabbiters, reabsorbs, rehabbers, scrabbler.
	+4 letters: arbitrable, barbarized, barbarizes, barbecuers, barberries, barbershop, bargeboard, bayberries, blackberry, bombardier, breadboard, breadcrumb, fiberboard, fibreboard, rabbitries, reabsorbed, scrabblers, scrabblier, unbarbered.
	+5 letters: abbreviator, backbreaker, baneberries, barbarities, barbershops, barbiturate, bargeboards, bearberries, beaverboard, birdbrained, blackbirder, blaeberries, bombardiers, breadboards, breadcrumbs, broomballer, fiberboards, fibreboards, perturbable, reabsorbing, rebarbative.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 72 62 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-... .- .-. -... . .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01110010 01100010 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#114 &#98 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0072 0062 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
barber	687
barber shop	457
barber supply	277
barber beauty school	230
barber school	198
barber chair	187
skip barber	119
barber of seville	113
barber colman	111
andrea barber	102
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Barber

Definitions: Barber

Barber

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definitions: Barber

Specialty Definition: Barber

Synonyms within Context: Barber

Wind

Crosswords: Barber

Modern Usage: Barber

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Commercial Usage: Barber

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Sounds Captioned with "Barber".

Use in Literature: Barber

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Non-Fiction Usage: Barber

Spoken Usage: Barber

Rush Limbaugh

Usage Frequency: Barber

Name Usage Frequency: Barber

Expressions: Barber

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Barber

barber

barber shop

barber supply

barber beauty school

barber school

barber chair

skip barber

barber of seville

barber colman

andrea barber

Modern Translations: Barber

Afrikaan

Albanian

Arabic

Asturian

Bemba

Bulgarian

Catalan

Cebuano

Chamorro

Chinese

Cornish

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Ecuadorian Quechua

Esperanto

Faeroese

Farsi

Finnish

French

Frisian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Inuktitut

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

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