barn

Meaning

Noun

1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
2. A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
3. (informal) An arena.
4. (slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.

Verb

To lay up in a barn.

Concepts

barn

granary

stable

shed

storehouse

warehouse

garner

barrack

shack

shanty

cowshed

b

stall

bin

silo

barnyard

grange

casern

storehouse for grain

store

stand

cellar

depository

godown

grain elevator

magazine

repository

storage place

loft

byre

cowhouse

farm building

cattle shed

outhouse

flea-pit

elevator

livestock shed

stock barn

grain store

garage

cowbarn

horse barn

breadbasket

cattle-shed

car barn

attic

corral

pen

depot

hangar

cote

Pronounced as (IPA)

[bɑɹn]

Etymology

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.