barn

Other forms of barn

plural

barns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barn

What does barn mean?

barn means "an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barn?

barn has 1 syllable: barn. In IPA it is /ˈbɑɹn/.

What is another word for barn?

Close synonyms include b. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barn a common word?

barn is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.