Definitions for barbican

barbican bar·bi·can

Spelling: [bahr-bi-kuh n]
IPA: /ˈbɑr bɪ kən/

Barbican is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in barbican (aabbcinr).

Definitions for barbican

noun

  1. an outwork of a fortified place, as a castle.
  2. a defensive outpost of any sort.

Origin of barbican

1250-1300; Middle English barbecan, barbican Old French barbacane or Medieval Latin barbacana, perhaps ≪ Persian bālāḥāna terrace over a roof, upper floor, altered by association with Latin b

Examples for barbican

He dyed about 1647; buried in Cripplegate church, from his house in the barbican.

I will be off the landing-place at the barbican with a boat.

The said suburb extended from the barbican of the city as far as the corner of the said city.

Lunch over, he lit a cigar, and strolled in the direction of the barbican.

The barbican was named Bevis's Tower from this legendary story.

They had crossed Smithfield together, and Clennam was left alone at the corner of barbican.

A voice from the guardroom in the barbican answer'd him through the darkness.

The original church was founded in the year 1760, in the barbican.

Some remains of the old barbican were to be seen here in the last century.

We started making them for a retrospective nine years ago that we were invited to in London at the barbican art gallery.

Word Value for barbican
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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