barn

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 [ˈbɑːn]    美 [ˈbɑɹn]|[ˈbɑɻn]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
    — One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
  2. A child.
  3. A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
  4. An arena. informal
    — Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.
  5. A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost. slang
动词 v.
  1. To lay up in a barn. transitive
    — But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits

词形变化

barns plural barns present,singular,third-person barning participle,present barned participle,past barned past barns plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”).
More at rest and barley.
For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.
词源 2
From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, progeny”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate to West Frisian bern (“child, children”), Middle Dutch baren (“child”).
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