Definitions for barracks

barracks bar·rack

Spelling: [bar-uh k]
IPA: /ˈbær ək/

Barracks is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in barracks (aabckrrs).

Definitions for barracks

noun

  1. a building or group of buildings for lodging soldiers, especially in garrison.
  2. any large, plain building in which many people are lodged.
  3. a building or group of buildings for lodging soldiers, especially in garrison.
  4. any large, plain building in which many people are lodged.

verb (used with object)

  1. to shout for or against.
  2. to shout for or against.

verb (used without object)

  1. to shout boisterously for or against a player or team; root or jeer.
  2. to shout boisterously for or against a player or team; root or jeer.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to lodge in barracks.
  2. to lodge in barracks.

Origin of barracks

1885-90; orig. Australian English, perhaps N Ireland dialect barrack to brag

Examples for barracks

As nothing had been heard of the bush rangers, Reuben determined to return to his barrack.

But at the beginning you will see them at their worst in the dulness of barrack life.

It is fast falling into ruin since it was abandoned as a barrack.

Hafrich shouts that he should return to the barrack, but the man keeps going.

Beg pardon, sir; but you are the gentleman from the barrack, sir?

By barrack and camp life the normal civilian intellect is, as it were, marooned.

There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.

I know he's here, for I heard him as I crossed the barrack square.

It is a wooden structure, looking more like a barrack than a castle.

The Arab media has taken note of the president taking the oath of office using his full name—barrack Hussein Obama.

No one is allowed to go out of barracks and no drink is allowed to come in.

“There was no evidence of fighters, checkpoints or buildings used as barracks for fighters,” she said.

After they divided and packed their things, Meathead moved back to the barracks.

The barracks is a squat building surrounded by sandbags on a side street near the city center.

To think that she had been ambitious of having a corner in this barracks!

Some have been pulled down entirely, and the site used for gaols or barracks.

The bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks coincided with an attack on a separate barracks used by French paratroopers.

He ordered the soldier to return immediately to the barracks.

Back at the barracks, police conducted a shoulder-to-shoulder “line search.”

Another post on the main, also, commanded the prisoners' barracks.

Word Value for barracks
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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