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a
: a usually large building for the storage of farm products or feed and usually for the housing of farm animals or farm equipment
b
: an unusually large and usually bare building
a great barn of a hotel—
W. A. White
W. A. White2
: a large building for the housing of a fleet of vehicles (such as trolley cars or trucks)
Examples of barn in a Sentence
They live in a big barn of a house.
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Her father, the late Bruce Headley, and McPeek were longtime friends and Headley’s barn is where McPeek would stable his horses when running in California.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
The hotel recently added a barn for horses with riding lessons and a mini-petting-zoo with rabbits and other cuddly animals.
—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Over the next few decades, a farmer and then his nephew owned the building, using it for apple storage and as a barn where turkeys, cows, chickens and pigs lived, Grissom said.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024
Timeless fisherman jackets are essentially the coastal equivalent of barn jackets, as are classic cable knits to traditional fisherman sweaters, while the Breton stripe has held a steady course as a year-round closet staple for decades.
—Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 17 Dec. 2024
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John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
The hotel recently added a barn for horses with riding lessons and a mini-petting-zoo with rabbits and other cuddly animals.
—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Over the next few decades, a farmer and then his nephew owned the building, using it for apple storage and as a barn where turkeys, cows, chickens and pigs lived, Grissom said.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024
Timeless fisherman jackets are essentially the coastal equivalent of barn jackets, as are classic cable knits to traditional fisherman sweaters, while the Breton stripe has held a steady course as a year-round closet staple for decades.
—Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Barn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barn. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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barn
noun
: a building used chiefly for storing grain and hay and for housing farm animals or farm equipment
Medical Definition
barn
noun
: a unit of area equal to 10−24 square centimeters that is used in nuclear physics for measuring cross section
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