barn
A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.”
A child.
Verb 1 meaning
To lay up in a barn.
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”).
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BARN at a glance
BARN has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (B 3 + A 1 + R 1 + N 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,086 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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