barnbarn /bɑːn $ bɑːrn/ noun [countable] 
a large farm building for storing crops, or for keeping animals in2informal a large plain building: 
a huge barn of a house
WORD ORIGINbarn
Origin:
Old English bereærn, from bere ‘barley’ + ærn ‘place’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Also houses, barns and trucks.
- Chuck Moxon and his partner took the suspect barn.
- He's got a big loft empty in one of his barns.
- I chased him with the pitchfork and he ran in the barn.
- Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor.
- The men who went out to the barn came in soaked to the skin.
- There had been a pair using this barn, but, as so often happens these days, they deserted their nest.
- There were a few Commandos resting in the barn, they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition.
WORD SETS
agrarian, adjectiveagribusiness, nounagro-, prefixagro-industry, nounanimal husbandry, nounanimal rights, nounartificial insemination, nounbale, nounbale, verbbarn, nounbarnyard, nounbattery, nounbiotechnology, nounbreadbasket, nounbreed, verbbreeding, nounbroiler, nounbroiler chicken, nounBSE, nounbuckaroo, nounbull, nounbutcher, verbbyre, nouncapon, nouncattleman, nouncattle market, nouncattle prod, nounchaff, nounchicken, nounchicken run, nouncollective farm, nouncoop, nounco-op, nouncorral, nouncorral, verbcowboy, nouncowgirl, nouncowhand, nouncowpoke, nouncreamery, nouncroft, nouncrofter, nouncrofting, nouncultivate, verbcultivation, noundairy, noundairy cattle, noundairy farm, noundairymaid, noundairyman, nounDDT, noundip, verbdip, noundirt farmer, noundrover, noundry-stone wall, noundude ranch, nounDutch barn, nounextensive agriculture, factory farming, nounfallow, adjectivefarm, nounfarm, verbfarmer, nounfarmhand, nounfarmhouse, nounfarming, nounfarmland, nounfarmstead, nounfarmyard, nounfeedstock, nounfield, nounfishery, nounfish farm, nounfish meal, nounflail, verbflail, nounfleece, nounfodder, nounfold, nounfoot and mouth disease, nounforage, nounfowl, nounfree-range, adjectivefungicide, noungamekeeper, noungeld, verbgenetically modified, adjectivegentleman farmer, nounGM, adjectivegoatherd, noungraft, noungraft, verbgranary, noungreenhouse, noungreen revolution, nounGreen Revolution, nounhacienda, nounharrow, nounhatchery, nounhayloft, nounhaymaking, nounhaystack, nounheifer, nounhen house, nounherbicide, nounherd, nounherd, verbherdsman, nounhigh-yield, adjectivehired hand, nounhomestead, nounhomestead, verbhopper, nounhorticulture, nounhusbandry, nounhutch, nouninsecticide, nounintensive agriculture, irrigate, verbJersey, nounkibbutz, nounlamb, verbland agent, nounlasso, nounlasso, verblift, verblitter, nounlivestock, nounlonghorn, nounmad cow disease, nounmanure, nounmeat, nounmerino, nounmilk, nounmilk churn, nounmilking machine, nounmilking parlour, nounmilkmaid, nounmixed farming, nounmower, nounmuck, nounmuckheap, nounnursery, nounoast house, nounorangery, nounorchard, nounorganic, adjectiveorganic farming, paddock, nounpaddy, nounpasturage, nounpasture, nounpasture, verbpastureland, nounpen, nounperpendicular, adjectivepest, nounpesticide, nounpiggery, nounpigpen, nounpigsty, nounpigswill, nounpitchfork, nounplantation, nounplanter, nounplough, nounplough, verbploughboy, nounploughman, nounploughshare, nounpoultry, nounproducer, nounpullet, nounPYO, raise, verbranch, nounrancher, nounranching, nounrange, nounranger, nounrear, verbrick, nounrubber, nounrun, nounrustle, verbscarecrow, nounscythe, nounsharecropper, nounshare-cropper, nounshear, verbshearer, nounsheep-dip, nounsheepdog, nounsheep-pen, nounshepherd, nounshepherdess, nounsickle, nounsilage, nounsilo, nounslaughter, verbslaughterhouse, nounsmallholding, nounsow, verbsow, nounsprayer, nounstable, nounstable, verbstable boy, nounstall, nounstation, nounsteer, nounstock, nounstockbreeder, nounstockman, nounstockyard, nounstubble, nounsty, nounswill, nounswine, nounswineherd, nountenant farmer, nounterrace, nounthresh, verbthreshing machine, nountractor, nountrough, nountruck farm, nountrue, adverbudder, nounvillein, nounvineyard, nounweedkiller, nounweevil, nounwheat, nounwheatgerm, nounwheatmeal, nounwinnow, verbwool, nounwrangler, nounyoke, nounyoke, verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a 19th-century converted barn (=barn changed into a house)COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1 British English (=when you change the use of a house, barn etc, so that it becomes apartments, a house, a room etc)
a 19th-century converted barn (=barn changed into a house)· The heat and stench of the converted barn was suddenly unbearable.· The guest accommodation is an attractive converted barn attached to the main house.
· This procedure naturally produced very large barns.· The size of the smelter looks on par with several large barns, and at least eight houses are visible.· The large barn, supported by stone buttresses, may have been the charcoal store.· The large barn was converted into a studio 30 years ago by its former owner, the late artist Eric Sloane.· A MacDougall & Co. had erected a large malt barn and brick stalk.· There was a large barn behind the gallery and originally a door at each end, one leading to the house.
· She kept a Tiger Moth at the time, housed in an old barn, using the South Meadow as an airstrip.· Tom and I were left alone in an old barn.· Getting people to the old barn won't be difficult, if we need to do it.· About 200 yards from his mansion, in an old barn, he even kept an armored personnel carrier.· That old barn belongs to Daddy.· These offered wide-open vistas of rolling farmland, old wooden barns and silos, all surrounded by stunning foliage.· He made his way to the old barn on the corner of their three acres.· His uncle owned the Music Box, an old barn converted to a dance hail on their apple farm just outside Hollybush.
NOUN· On it lay plans for a barn conversion.· This barn conversion had about two acres of totally untouched field surrounding it.
· This will be followed by an evening barn dance.· Central Birmingham Group held a barn dance which raised £200; door-to-door the group collected £1,300.
· He would still be mending that barn door.· Beyond - the shadowy barn doors, closed.· But as I get closer to the barn door, I become apprehensive.· Improbable because compared to the plump, leather-lined Bentley, a barn door has the frontal area of a postage stamp.· Would I defend him if some shooters walked through the barn door?· The old barn door was open.· On the range Morenz could not hit a barn door.
· We told them to get out.Three deny they left twins to die in barn fire.· Read in studio Farm animals have been killed and thousands of bales of hay destroyed in a barn fire.· Sheer panic: Accused describes the barn fire that killed twin sisters.· In Central News tonight: Open verdict: Family of barn fire victim say it rules out suicide.· Left to die: Court hears of twins' death in barn fire.· Marc died in a mysterious barn fire in Stroud almost nine months ago.· Cylinders of acetylene were believed to have gone up in what was originally reported as a simple barn fire.
· Following the demise of the canal, the old wharf buildings found a new use as hay barns for the adjoining farm.· Time allowed 01:25 Read in studio Police are hunting arsonists who're targeting hay barns at the height of the harvest.
· I hope to rear another barn owl like Dawn some day, from the egg to the jesses.· The king snake and the barn owl are natural predators.· After a century of population decline, only 4,000 of Britain's estimated 25,000 pairs of barn owls live in the wild.· These values contrast with correlations between the barn owl and kestrel samples of r 0.189-0.355.· Fig. 2.1 Comparison of mandibular lengths of four barn owl prey assemblages.· Once poison has temporarily reduced rat populations to almost zero, predation by barn owls can slow the recovery.· And barn owls are very inquisitive, as I discovered later when I began to take Dawn out into the fields.· Road fragmentation kills vulnerable species, e.g. barn owls.
· Take the horses out and lead them over to the tithe barn.· The tithe barns, the Rectory, the toll bridges no longer controlled daily life, but they still punctuated the landscape.
VERB· Until you have time and money to build a barn, a rick-yard may be the only alternative.· It all began in 1978, when he was hired to build the barn in which he is now seated.· In the eighteenth century it seemed impossible to build a barn without creating a work of art.
· I visited one farm that obtained permission to convert a barn for use as a place to pack boxes.· Have you converted a barn into a comfortable home?
· We told them to get out.Three deny they left twins to die in barn fire.· Marc died in a mysterious barn fire in Stroud almost nine months ago.
· The rest had followed Hazel when he roused them and, without explanation, told them to go quickly outside the barn.· Ellen, you want to go to the sheep barn or to the hogs?· I got dressed and went into the barn and looked for the old wooden trunk near the rear entrance.· All five had gone to the barn after an evening in the pub.· She goes to the barn to milk Marilyn.· The twins and three men had gone to the barn after an evening in a pub.· The men who went out to the barn came in soaked to the skin.
a large farm building for storing crops, or for keeping animals in2informal a large plain building: a huge barn of a house