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# barn

«barn» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big farm building for animals, hay, crops or tools** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (barn, barns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A barn is a big farm building for animals, hay, crops or tools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#m1)

2) «Barn owls» often live in barns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#m2)

3) «Barn dance» is a party with country dancing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a place where animals or bales are counted; animals going in and out of the barn add and take away. In everyday life and stories: farm visits, «Charlotte's Web» is set in a barn, a red barn. Phrases: «in the barn», «barn owl», «barn dance», «hay barn», «couldn't hit a barn door» (very bad at aiming).

### examples

- There are 24 cows in the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x1)
- The barn holds 300 bales of hay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x2)
- 5 horses left the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x3)
- How many animals are in the barn? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x4)
- The cows sleep in the barn in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x5)
- A barn owl lives in the old barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x6)
- Wilbur the pig lived in a barn in «Charlotte's Web». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x7)
- We went to a barn dance at the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x8)
- He went out to the barn and got hold of a flail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a barn». Maths: a place of the story; animals in = start + came in − left. Trap: legs in the barn depend on which animals.

### In the corpora

- [Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/13/)
- [Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn owls that hunt mice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/5/)
- [A barn owl family can eat thousands of mice and voles in a year, so farmers put up owl boxes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/19/)
- [Picture a barn owl at dusk, floating low over a field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/2/)
- [Camera traps film them walking down empty streets, and wild Przewalski's horses shelter in old barns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.