Barn

Definition: Barn

Barn

Noun

1. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.

2. (atomic or nuclear physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "barn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Barn

Abode

Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.

Cage, terrarium, doghouse; pen, aviary; barn, stall; zoo.

Animal

Bird; poultry, fowl, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon.

Inutility

Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late);seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible).

Sociality

Social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly; (assemblage); barbecue, bee; corn-husking, corn-shucking; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee; infare.

Untimeliness

Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.

Crosswords: Barn

Danish (bairn, child, infant, offspring, young), Faeroese (bairn, child, infant), Icelandic (bairn, child, infant), Norwegian (bairn, child, infant), Portuguese (barn), Swedish (baby, bairn, bantling, barn, child, children, infant, issue, kid), Welsh (judgement, opinion, sentence).

I got something trapped in my barn. (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb)

'Tis a fine barn, but sure 'tis no pool, English (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

She doesn't like it in the barn. The horses keep her up at night (The Ring; writing credit: Ehren Kruger)

Well, you should see what happens when you mention my name at The Rug Barn. You get a glass of cold mint tea and a rough kiss from a guy named Misha (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Nono honeyNot like that, we're not a barn dance (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Seven in a Barn (1971)

Tornerose var et vakkert barn (1971)

Solens barn (1969)

Vi vil ha' et barn (1969)

Bränt barn (1967)

Come Together (And Build A Barn) (performing artist: The Electric Amish)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Dress Barn, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Barn and Perchery Eggs (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• A Day at the Barn (Bob the Builder Vinyl Sticker) (reference)

• Big Red Barn (reference)

• Small Barn Plans for Owner-Builders (reference)

• The American Barn (reference)

• The Christmas Barn (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Barn (reference)

• Foreldre & Barn (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Amish Barn Raising (reference)

• Barn Burning (reference)

• Barn Of The Naked Dead (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bradley Barn Sessions (reference)

• The Way It Really Sounds at a Barn Dance (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Union Tools 83109/BS24 24" x 6" Union Barn Scraper (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shows three different shots of two young girls in various activities. Two shots are taken inside as older girl holds small baby. Other shot is outside, two young girls groom horse in barn. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Concrete-lined manure storage pond with cattle barn and push-off slope. Newaygo County, Michigan. Credit: Fred Gasper.

Red canoe with fisherman on a pond with a red barn in background. Montcalm County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Turkeys going into barn. Credit: USDA.

Holsteins inside dairy barn. Credit: USDA.

A migrant Mexican laboror carries a rack of dried tobacco leaves from a curing barn in the Danville, VA. Credit: USDA.

Rogue River - Robertson Bridge. Robertson Bridge Barn. Credit: Unknown.

State historical panel at Peter French's Round Barn. Credit: Rich Ray.

Log house with barn, from Lebskaia village (Leshukonskii Region) (19th century), reassembled at Malye Korely Architectural Preserve , Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Log barn, Kirov Street (around 1900), Eniseisk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The staircase led up to a very spacious interior, which looked like a barn converted into a house

The fences were gone and the cotton grew in the dooryard and up against the house, and the cotton was about the shed barn.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Do you think you have rodents infesting your home, barn or workplace, but aren't sure?  Here are some common signs that you may have a rodent problem. (references)

Minorities

Poland

In April a controversial Gdansk priest, Henryk Jankowski, created in his church a replica of the barn in Jedwabne in which members of that town's Jewish community were burned to death in 1941. A sign near the display accused Jews of killing Christ and persecuting Poles. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "barn": barn dance ♦ barn door ♦ barn grass ♦ barn manure ♦ barn millet ♦ barn owl ♦ barn owls ♦ barn spider ♦ barn swallow ♦ barn yard manure ♦ car barn ♦ cow barn ♦ hay barn ♦ horse barn ♦ lock the barn door after the horse is stolen ♦ Mule Barn ♦ threshing barn ♦ tithe barn. Additional references.

Beginning with "barn": barn-door, barn-door fowl, barn-doors, barn-door-sized, barn-drying, barn-floor, barn-like, barn-owl, barn-owls, barn-raising, barn-stormed, barn-storming, barn-yard.

Ending with "barn": hay-barn.

Afrikaans

barak (barrack, shack, shanty, shed). (various references)

Albanian

bina (pile), park (garden, Park, parkland, pleasure ground), koçek (crib), hangar (hangar, shed), grunar (granary). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخزن الحبوب (bay, granary), ‏مبنى لإيواء العربات, ‏إسطبل (stable). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хамбар (bin, crib, garner, granary, store-house), обор (byre, cowshed). (various references)

Chamorro

kámalen. (various references)

Chinese 

谷仓, 馬廄 , 穀倉 , 倉 (cabin, granary, hold, storehouse). (various references)

Cornish

skyber. (various references)

Czech

vozovna, stodola, stáj (shed, stable, stud), chlév (cattle shed, cowshed). (various references)

Danish

lade (barrack, shack, shanty, shed), barak (shed, stand). (various references)

Dutch

schuur (barrack, shack, shanty, shed, stand), loods (barrack, pilot, shack, shanty, shed, stand), keet (barrack, shack, shanty, shed, stand), barak (barrack, shack, shanty, shed). (various references)

Esperanto

budo (shed, stand), barako (barrack, shack, shanty, shed). (various references)

Faeroese

búð (boutique, shed, shop, stand, store). (various references)

Farsi 

طویله (Stable), انبارکاه وجووکنف وغیره , انبارکردن (Garner, Stash, Stock, Store, Warehouse), انبارغله (Garner, Granary, Silo). (various references)

Finnish

barn, lato (shed). (various references)

French

grange (loft barn), stand, kiosque, étable (cow barn). (various references)

Frisian

skuorre (barrack, shack, shanty, shed), kream (shed, stand), diske (shed, stand). (various references)

German

Scheune (shed, stand), Scheuer. (various references)

Greek 

αχυρώνας (hayloft). (various references)

Hebrew 

אסם (abundance, elevator, granary), גרן (threshing floor, threshing season). (various references)

Hungarian

szénapajta (dutch barn, hayloft), magtár (granary, grange, lathe), istálló (equerry, stable, stock-yard), csûr (beak, bill, garner, granary, lathe, shed). (various references)

Indonesian

gudang (depot, godown, storehouse, warehouse). (various references)

Italian

granaio (breadbasket, granary, shed, stand), fienile (hayloft, haymow, loft), baracca (barrack, hovel, hut, shack, shanty, shed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

牧舎 (stable), 畜舎 (cattle shed), 納屋　 (outhouse, shed), 納屋 (outhouse, shed), 厩舎 (stable), 廐舎 (stable), 廏舎 (stable), 廐 (stable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なや (outhouse, shed), きゅうしゃ (hearse, pigeon house, stable), ぼくしゃ (diviner, fortuneteller, herdsman, ranch hand, soothsayer, stable), うまや (a stable, stable), ちくしゃ (cattle shed). (various references)

Korean 

축사 (congratulations, stall, stalls). (various references)

Manx

soalt (granary), skibbalt (granary). (various references)

Mohawk

tsi yetskwa'ehstha. (various references)

Norwegian

låve (depository). (various references)

Papiamen

barak (barrack, shack, shanty, shed). (various references)

Pig Latin

arnbay.(various references)

Portuguese

celeiro (barnyard, cellar, church-owl, garner, granary, loft, mow, shed, stand, storehouse), estábulo (cowshed, crib, stable, stall, sty). (various references)

Romanian

pãtul pentru fîn (hayloft), hambar (granary, hutch), grajd (cow-house, Mews, shed, stable, stabling, stall), coşar (chimney sweep, sweeper), şurã (Grange, shed), şopron (cot, Cote, shed). (various references)

Romany

avlìn (field). (various references)

Russian 

амбар (church-owl, garner, granary). (various references)

Scottish

sgiobal, sgìobal (a barn), sabhal (a barn). (various references)

Sepedi

polokelo. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ambar (garner, granary), žitnica (granary). (various references)

Spanish

granero (breadbasket, garner, granary, shed, stand), cobertizo (barrack, boathouse, hut, outbuilding, penthouse, shack, shanty, shed, shelter), puesto (booth, cadre, degree, employment, enclosed, envelope, established, flooring, hide, imposition, imprisonment, inserted, installation, job, laid, landed, lieu, lined, on, opening, pitch, place, position, post, rating, shed, stall, stand, station), establo (byre, cowshed, garage, shed, stable, stall, sty), cabina (bathing box, booth, cab, cabin, cubicle, locker, shed, sleeping compartment, stand), barraca (barrack, cabin, hut, shack, shanty, shed), barnio. (various references)

Swedish

lada (depository), barn (baby, bairn, bantling, child, children, infant, issue, kid). (various references)

Turkish

ambara koymak, ambar (bin, clamp, depository, hold, hutch, larder, office, repository, silo, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), ahır (byre, cowhouse, cowshed, crib, shed, stable, stabling, stall). (various references)

Ukrainian

стодола, стайня (stable), скотний двір (barn-yard, stockyard, yard), сарай (shed), хлів (cowhouse, cowshed, pigpen, stall), корівник (byre, cowhouse, cowshed, ox-stall), конюшня (stable), комора (cellar, depot, garner, granary, larder, pantry, storehouse, storeroom, stowage), казарма (barrack, cantonment building, lodgement, lodgment, quarters), клуня, гараж (car park, garage, shed), амбар (garner, granary), депо. (various references)

Vietnamese 

diễn viên xoàng (barn-stormer), $barn fowl$ chim nuôi quanh nhà kho (barn-door). (various references)

Welsh

ysgubor (granary). (various references)

horrea, horrei, horreis, horreorum, horreum. (various references)

scura. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "barn": barnacle, barnacled, barnacles, barnier, barniest, barnlike, barns, barnstorm, barnstormed, barnstormer, barnstormers, barnstorming, barnstorms, barny, barnyard, barnyards. (additional references)

Words ending with "barn": carbarn. (additional references)

Words containing "barn": carbarns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Barn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aarn, aborn, Abrdn, arn, Baarh, bahn, Bahru, bann, banre, barc, baren, barin, barne, Barni, Barnt, barny, barp, barq, baru, barx, Batn, batrun, baun, bayn, benr, Beorn, berno, berny, birn, Bjarne, blarn, bornn, brana, brano, brj, Gbargna, jarn, narn, varn. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bran.

-1 letter: arb, ban, bar, bra, nab, ran.

-2 letters: ab, an, ar, ba, na.

+1 letter: bairn, barns, barny, baron, brain, brand, brank, brans, brant, brawn, buran, unbar, urban.

+2 letters: auburn, bairns, bander, banger, banker, banner, banter, baring, barman, barmen, barong, barons, barony, barren, baryon, binary, borane, brains, brainy, branch, brands, brandy, branks, branny, brants, brawns, brawny, brazen, brogan, burans, carbon, corban, graben, nabber, nearby, rabbin, riband, roband, rurban, turban, unbars, unbear, urbane.