Noun: barrack
| Singular | barrack |
| Plural | barracks |
Sample Sentences
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Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy. [1829, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 4, page 67:]
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1919, House Committee on Military Affairs, Army Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 8287, H.R. 8068, H.R. 7925, H.R. 8870, Sept. 3, 1919-Nov. 12, 1919, Parts 23-43, page 1956,
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How do you distinguish between the disciplinary barracks and the penitentiary? Where are the disciplinary barracks ?
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I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors. [1996, Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Brian Murdoch, All Quiet on the Western Front, page 129:]
Nouns inflected like barrack
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca or Catalan barraca, which is of uncertain origin. It is probably either a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar”), of unclear origin, or a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”) from Celtiberian or Paleo-Hispanic. See: French Nouns '
baraque', Spanish Nouns '
barraca', Catalan Nouns '
barraca'.
Verbs referencing "barrack"
Finnish Nouns
parakki.