Definitions for Barber

Barber bar·ber

Spelling: [bahr-ber]
IPA: /ˈbɑr bər/

Barber is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Barber (abberr).

Definitions for Barber

noun

  1. a person whose occupation it is to cut and dress the hair of customers, especially men, and to shave or trim the beard.
  2. frost smoke.
  3. Samuel, 1910–81, U.S. composer.

verb (used with object)

  1. to trim or dress the hair or beard of.

Origin of Barber

1275-1325; Middle English barbour Anglo-French; Old French barbeor, equivalent to barb(e) (Latin barba beard) + -eor Latin -ātōr- -ator

Examples for Barber

It is so called from a fancied resemblance to a wig on a barber's block.

Admirable stuff, but also on his agenda could be just a fleeting visit to a barber.

That is why Malloy is campaigning on a lonely stretch of barber shops and boxing gyms in New Haven a week before the election.

Grasping the situation I replied that I did not like my barber.

barber and Stillwell and Colpetzer and their associates did not die in vain.

Business owners swept up glass in front of their barber shop.

“If you say a bad word about someone here, it gets around fast,” said Jack West, the barber.

I shall not go to bed till night; but I want a bedroom, and a barber.

He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.

He was the son of a barber at Laval, in Maine, where he was born in 1509.

Word Value for Barber
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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