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bar·rack 1
(băr′ək)tr.v. bar·racked, bar·rack·ing, bar·racks
To house (soldiers, for example) in quarters.
n. often barracks
1. A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel.
2. A large, unadorned building used for temporary occupancy.
[From French baraque, hut made of planks, barrack, from Middle French barraque, ultimately (via Old Provençal baraca Old Spanish barraca) from Catalan barraca, hut, perhaps partly from a source akin to Spanish varga, thatched hut (of unknown origin) and partly from medieval Andalusian Arabic *barrāka, perhaps meaning "hut for resting beasts of burden" (from Arabic barraka, to make (a camel) kneel; akin to Akkadian birku and Hebrew berek, knee).]
bar·rack 2
(băr′ək)v. bar·racked, bar·rack·ing, bar·racks
v.intr.
1. Chiefly British To jeer or shout at a player, speaker, or team.
2. Australian To shout support for a team.
v.tr. Chiefly British
To shout against; jeer at.
[Perhaps from Irish dialectal barrack, to brag; akin to brag.]
bar′rack·er n.
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barracks
(ˈbærəks)pl n (sometimes singular; when plural, sometimes functions as singular)
1. (Military) a building or group of buildings used to accommodate military personnel
2. any large building used for housing people, esp temporarily
3. a large and bleak building
[C17: from French baraque, from Old Catalan barraca hut, of uncertain origin]
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barracks
Block accommodation for the military since Roman times.
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barracks
plural noun camp, quarters, garrison, encampment, billet, cantonment, casern an army barracks in the north of the city
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Translations
ثَكَنَةٌ عَسْكَريّه
kasárny
barakkaserne
laktanya
hermannaskáli
kareivinės
kazarmas
kasárne
vojašnica
barracks
[ˈbærəks] NPLCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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barracks
pl (often with sing vb, Mil) → Kaserne f; (fig pej also) → Mietskaserne f; to live in barracks → in der Kaserne wohnen
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barracks
(ˈbӕrəks) noun singular or plural a building or buildings for housing soldiers. confined to barracks (= not allowed to leave the barracks).
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