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barn Definition


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barn
noun
    1. A building in which grain or hay, etc is stored, or for housing cattle, etc.
    2. A large bare building.
Idiom: Were you born in a barn?
    colloq
    Said as a complaint to someone who comes into a house or room, etc leaving the door wide open, ie Do you like, or are you accustomed to, cold draughty places?
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon beren, from bere barley + ærn house.



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