barn — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.

   Examples

   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 unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.

3. An arena.

   Usage

   • Informal

   Examples

   Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.

4. A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.

   Usage

   • Slang

Verb

1. To lay up in a barn.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits

   Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.

Noun

1. A child.

Noun

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

   Broader terms

   farm building

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

   Synonyms

   b

   Broader terms

   area unitsquare measure