Words / B2

BAHN/bɑːn/

A barn is a large farm building for storing crops, hay, or housing animals: a barn conversion; a barn owl. Outbuilding and shed are related; a shed is usually smaller. Convert the barn in the rural-change case, then name the planning class. Mix-up: barn vs baron; born. Do not write barn for a high-street flat with no farm use in the source.

Meaning

A large farm building for storing crops, hay, or housing animals.

Examples

• “Convert the barn in the rural-change case, then name the planning class.”
• “A barn owl featured in the habitat survey, which is the species-name sense.”

Good to know

a barn; a barn conversion; barn owl. Related: outbuilding / shed. Trap: baron / born. Geography, history, and biology. A large farm storage or animal building, not a slogan on a café.

Near in meaning

outbuilding, shed, farm building

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