barrack

Meaning

Noun

1. (in-plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
2. (in-plural) A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
3. (broadly, in-plural) Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
4. (US) A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
5. (Ireland, colloquial, plural-normally) A police station.

Verb

1. (transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter.
2. (intransitive) To live in barracks.

Verb

1. (British, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support a team.

Synonyms

shack

shanty

shed

hut

🛖

barracks

inspire

barn

cheer

jeer

exhort

urge

scoff

pep up

urge on

flout

gibe

quarter

caserne

boo

root on

house

🏠

hutch

interfere

interrupt

intrude

move

place

root

shelter

sliver

squat

structure

turn on

wind up

chime in

put in one’s oar

military camp

dilapidated house

camp farm

billet

building

butt in

camp

camping

🏕️

cantonment

casern

charge

construction

🚧

drive

dwelling

Translations

caserne

baracca

🛖

baraque

cuartel

Baracke

barraca

caserma

Kaserne

schuur

kazerne

loods

🧑‍✈️

barak

στρατώνας

caserna

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbæɹ.ək/

Etymology

Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca or Catalan barraca, which is of uncertain origin. It is probably either a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar”), of unclear origin, or a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”) from Celtiberian or Paleo-Hispanic.