You could picture a barn as one huge, mostly empty wooden shell standing in a field — a single big space with a high roof, built to swallow a whole harvest or a herd of animals.
From the word’s history
Old English berern / bereærn, literally 'barley house' — bere ('barley') + ærn ('dwelling, storehouse'), later contracted to bern, barn. The word was a store for grain before it was anything else.
古英語的 berern／bereærn 字面意思就是「大麥的屋子」：bere（大麥）＋ ærn（房舍、儲藏處），後來縮成 bern、barn。也就是說這個字一開始講的就是「放穀物的那間屋」，儲存空間才是它的本義，養牲口是後來擴出去的用法。這也解釋了為什麼它給人的第一印象永遠是「一個大容器」而不是「一個住人的家」。
Wiktionary, 'barn' (Old English berern, bereærn = bere 'barley' + ærn 'dwelling, storehouse')
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原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
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Barnname
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A diminutive of the male given names Barney, Barnabas, Barnaby, or Barnett.
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A unisex given name transferred from the surname; diminutive of Barnard (“surname”).
barnnoun詞源 1[ˈbɑɹn]
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleA building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
- 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.
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A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
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informalball-gamesbasketballgamesAn arena.
- Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.
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slangA warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
barnverb詞源 1[ˈbɑɹn]
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To lay up in a barn.
- But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits
- Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
barnnoun詞源 2[ˈbɑɹn]
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A child.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。