barrack

1. 1.

   a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel

   Broadermilitary quarters

   Narrowercasern

   Partssquad room

   military

Other forms of barrack

plural

barracks·

past tense

barracked·

present participle

barracking·

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 barrack

What does barrack mean?

barrack means "lodge in barracks". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barrack?

barrack has 2 syllables: bar-rack. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbæɹək/.

What is another word for barrack?

Close synonyms include cheer, root on, inspire, urge, urge on. 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 barrack a common word?

barrack is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.