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barn

noun B2
  1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
  2. A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
  3. An arena. (informal) · Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.
  4. A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost. (slang)

Plural barns

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He’s at the barn.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 310 · C1
They hurried to the hayfield below the barn where Matthew was coiling hay, and, as luck would have it, Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 274 · C1
Off to the left were the big barns and beyond them, away down over green, low-sloping fields, was a sparkling blue glimpse of sea.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 39 · C1
There were also pretty little barns, with china fences around them; and many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens, all made of china, were standing about in groups.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 129 · B2

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