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barn

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Agriculture, Buildings, Household
barn /bɑːn $ bɑːrn/ noun [countable]  1. barn.jpg TAa large farm building for storing crops, or for keeping animals in 谷仓,粮秣房,仓库;牲口棚4  See picture on 见图 Page A4 Country 乡间4  See picture of 见图 HOME5 see picture at 见图 home12 informalTBBDH a large plain building 简陋的大房子 a huge barn of a house 一幢简陋的大房子
Examples from the Corpus
barnHe's got a big loft empty in one of his barns.Also houses, barns and trucks.Chuck Moxon and his partner took the suspect barn.I chased him with the pitchfork and he ran in the barn.There were a few Commandos resting in the barn, they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition.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.Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor.
Origin barn Old English bereærn, from bere barley + ærn place
barn nounChinese
or Corpus farm large for building for storing a animals crops, keeping


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barn
barn /bɑːn $ bɑːrn/ noun [countable]
 Language: Old English
 Origin: bereærn, from bere 'barley' + ærn 'place'

1. a large farm building for storing crops, or for keeping animals in
2. informal a large plain building:
    a huge barn of a house


barnBrE /bɑːn/ 🔊NAmE /bɑːrn/ 🔊 noun
a large farm building for storing grain or keeping animals in 谷仓;畜棚;仓房a hay barn干草棚They live in a converted barn (= a barn that has been turned into a house). 他们住在由谷仓改成的房子里。🔊🔊

arable, barn, crop, cultivate, dairy, fallow, farm, graze, livestock, tractor

  see also Dutch barn
a large plain ugly building 简陋的大建筑物They live in a great barn of a house. 他们住在一所简陋的大房子里。🔊🔊(NAmE) a building in which buses, trucks, etc. are kept when not being used (公共汽车、卡车等的)车库
close, etc. the barn door after the horse has eˈscaped(NAmE) (BrE close, etc. the stable door after the horse has ˈbolted) to try to prevent or avoid loss or damage when it is already too late to do so 马跑了才去关厩门;贼走关门,为时已晚