barn
(bɑːʳn )
Word forms: barns
countable noun
A barn is a building on a farm in which crops or animal food can be kept.
People were asked to check sheds and barns in case he had taken shelter.
Synonyms: grainstore, store, shed, grange
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Collocations:
cattle barn converted barn hay barn old barn
The dining room, a former cattle barn, houses one treasured item that he will never part with: a small bronze of two oarsmen.
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The swimming pool has lovely views of the rolling hills; the bar and dining room, in an old cattle barn, serves home-made pasta and beef reared in the surrounding pastureland.
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The property contained a 20-room summer inn, a cattle barn, a grocery store, and a gas station.
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In 2009 a large cattle barn was built at no expense to the school system.
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The visitor center, located in a former cattle barn, features displays about the science of archaeology and the work being done on the property.
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The 600,000 home comes with a former lime kiln and a converted barn.
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The chief executive lives in a 18th-century converted barn worth a cool 1 million.
The Sun (2016)
There are charming rooms with cosy furnishings in the main building and a converted barn.
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We begin with an ideas meeting in the farm 's converted barn house.
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The 12 rooms are in an old stone manor house, the bar and restaurant in a converted barn.
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When is a hay barn not a hay barn?
The Sun (2009)
There are five bedrooms in the main house, and a converted hay barn contains two more bedrooms and a yoga studio.
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Charlie hadn't even mentioned the entertaining encounter in the hay barn, for fear of upsetting her.
TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS (2003)
The bigger rooms in the old barn are best.
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The worst one, however, involved the old barn where the best horses in the yard stayed.
The Sun
A sturdy old barn, or a fortified house from lawless times among these hills?
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Pass old barn on right; through left-hand of two gates; on with wall on right.
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But you step inside a big old barn to find the most magical place: it's like walking into an old-fashioned fairground.
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Translations:
Chinese: 谷仓
Japanese: 納屋
- conduct reconnaissance
- conduct research
- conduct surveillance
- conduct testing
- conduct training
- conduit
- cone
- cone shape
- confab
- confection
- confectioner
- confectioners' sugar
- confectionery
- confederacy
- confederate
- confederation
- confer
- confer a degree
- confer an advantage
- confer a right
- confer a sense of
- confer a title
- confer benefits
- conference
- conference attendance