Definitions for barn
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. barnnoun

   an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

2. barn, bnoun

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barnnoun

   A place or house for laying up any sort of grain, hay, or straw, &c.

   Etymology: bern, Sax.

   In vain the barns expect their promis’d load,
   Nor barns at home, nor reeks are heap’d abroad. Dryden.

   I took notice of the make of several barns here: after having laid a frame of wood, they place, at the four corners of it, four blocks, in such a shape as neither mice nor vermin can creep up. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

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1. barn

   A barn is a large agricultural building typically used for storing farm products or housing livestock, such as cattle or horses. It may also be used for storing farming equipment or fodder. Barns are commonly found on farms and ranches.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barnnoun

   a covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables

2. Barnverb

   to lay up in a barn

3. Barnnoun

   a child. [Obs.] See Bairn

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barn

   A barn is an agricultural building primarily located on farms and used for many purposes, notably for the housing of livestock and storage of crops. In addition, barns may be used for equipment storage, as a covered workplace, such as threshing. The word barn is also used to describe buildings used for uses such as a tobacco barn or dairy barn. An archaic word for one type of barn meant for keeping cattle was byre.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barn

   bärn, n. a building in which grain, hay, &c. are stored.—v.t. to store in a barn.—ns. and adjs. Barn′-door, Barn′-yard, as in barn-yard fowl.—n. Barn′-owl, the commonest of British owls.—Barn-door, in cricket, used of a player who blocks every ball: humorously, any large target. [A.S. bere-ern, contracted bern, from bere, barley, ern, a house.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barn

   [uncommon; prob. from the nuclear military] An unexpectedly large quantity of something: a unit of measurement. “Why is /var/adm taking up so much space?” “The logs have grown to several barns.” The source of this is clear: when physicists were first studying nuclear interactions, the probability was thought to be proportional to the cross-sectional area of the nucleus (this probability is still called the cross-section). Upon experimenting, they discovered the interactions were far more probable than expected; the nuclei were “as big as a barn”. The units for cross-sections were christened Barns, (10-24 cm2) and the book containing cross-sections has a picture of a barn on the cover.

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1. barn

   The barn symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the barn symbol and its characteristic.

2. BARN

   What does BARN stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the BARN acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BARN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Barn is ranked #91625 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Barn surname appeared 201 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Barn.
   
   47.7% or 96 total occurrences were White.
   25.3% or 51 total occurrences were Asian.
   20.4% or 41 total occurrences were Black.
   3.4% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Area Unit
   • Atomic Physics
   • Farm Building

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'barn' in Nouns Frequency: #2221

Anagrams for barn »

1. bran

How to pronounce barn?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say barn in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of barn in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of barn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of barn in a Sentence

1. John Boehner:

   I made it clear a month ago when I announced I was leaving that I wanted to do my best to clean the barn, i didn't want Paul Ryan to walk into a dirty barn with you know what.

2. Marlo Thomas:

   Whenever you go to any of these fabulous stores, [like] Kmart, Ann Taylor, Domino’s Pizza, Chili’s Bar Grill and Best Buy … Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma … they’re going to ask if you’d like to give a dollar or two to the children of St. Jude.

3. Simone Biles:

   I think the culture shift is happening, but it’s almost as if the athletes almost have too much power and the coaches can’t get a rein on it, so then it’s kind of wild. It’s like a horse out of the barn: You can’t get it back in.

4. Sam Rayburn:

   Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

5. Dave Kochel:

   If you can't have a beer at the Bud tent, look comfortable standing in a cattle barn, or eat a corn dog without embarrassing yourself, you probably aren't going anywhere in the Iowa caucuses, campaigns need to understand that the Iowa State Fair creates far more chances to fail than to succeed, but it's an important gauntlet if you want a ticket punched out of Iowa.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=barn
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=barn
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barn
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=barn
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=barn
7. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Barn
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html