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Word entry · 4 letters

barn

Best crossword clue

"Building near a silo"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation [ˈbɑɹn]Part of speech nounSorted abnrStarts with BEnds with N7 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • “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.”
  • “Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.”
  • “But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer7 curated clues

01“Building near a silo”4 letters
02“Farm building for animals”4 letters
03“Farm building with stalls”4 letters
04“Hay storage building”4 letters
05“Red farm building”4 letters
06“Shelter for farm animals”4 letters
07“Farm storage building”4 letters

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