barn
Plural: barns
Noun
- an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
- (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
- A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
- A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
- An arena.
- A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
- A child.
- pl. -S a large storage building
Verb
- To lay up in a barn.
Examples
- "Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn."
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 6
barn: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordbarn: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
barn: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
barn is a valid Words With Friends word