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# barrack

«barrack» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large building or group of buildings where soldiers live** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a barrack, usually plural: barracks); verb (barrack, barracks, barracked, barracking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Barracks are a large building or group of buildings where soldiers live. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#m1)

2) (UK, Ireland) To barrack someone is to shout rude or mocking things at them while they are speaking or playing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#m2)

3) (Australia, NZ) To barrack for a team is to cheer for and support it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#m3)

4) Barracks can also be a simple building where hens and ducks are kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history, soldiers lived in barracks; the plural «barracks» can mean one building or many. At sports matches in Britain, a crowd may barrack a player or referee. In Australia, «Who do you barrack for?» means «Which footy team do you support?».

### examples

- The soldiers marched back to the barracks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#x1)
- The army barracks were by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#x2)
- The crowd barracked the referee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#x3)
- Don't barrack the speaker; let him finish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#x4)
- (Australia) I barrack for Collingwood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#x5)
- The old barracks are now a museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#x6)
- She often came in the company of grand noble guests, to whom she showed "the hens' and ducks' barracks," as she called the little house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barrack/#x7)

### note

«Barracks» can be singular or plural: «a barracks», «the barracks are». Verb: barracked. Note the two different verb meanings in Britain and Australia.

### Trees and pragmatics

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