barn
noun
[ bɑːn ]
• a large farm building used for storing grain, hay, or straw or for housing livestock.
Similar:
outbuilding,
shed,
outhouse,
shelter,
stable,
mews,
stall,
pound,
sty,
coop,
Dutch barn,
byre,
linhay,
grange,
garner,
Origin:
Old English bern, berern, from bere ‘barley’ + ern, ærn ‘house’.
barn
noun
• a unit of area, 10−28 square metres, used especially in particle physics.
Origin:
1940s: apparently from the phrase as big as a barn door .
