BARRACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barrack mean? 

• BARRACK (noun)
  The noun BARRACK has 1 sense:

1. a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel

  Familiarity information: BARRACK used as a noun is very rare.

• BARRACK (verb)
  The verb BARRACK has 3 senses:

1. lodge in barracks

2. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

3. laugh at with contempt and derision

  Familiarity information: BARRACK used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARRACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("barrack" is a kind of...):

military quarters (living quarters for personnel on a military post)

Meronyms (parts of "barrack"):

squad room (a room in a barracks where soldiers are billeted)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barrack"):

casern (military barracks in a garrison town)

Derivation:

barrack (lodge in barracks)

• BARRACK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they barrack    ... he / she / it barracks   
Past simple: barracked   
Past participle: barracked   
-ing form: barracking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lodge in barracks

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "barrack" is one way to...):

accommodate; lodge (provide housing for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

barrack (a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

barrack; cheer; exhort; inspire; pep up; root on; urge; urge on

Context example:

The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers

Hypernyms (to "barrack" is one way to...):

encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "barrack"):

cheerlead (act as a cheerleader in a sports event)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Laugh at with contempt and derision

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

barrack; flout; gibe; jeer; scoff

Context example:

The crowd jeered at the speaker

Hypernyms (to "barrack" is one way to...):

bait; cod; rag; rally; razz; ride; tantalise; tantalize; taunt; tease; twit (harass with persistent criticism or carping)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

The married officers live out of barracks, and the Colonel has during all this time occupied a villa called Lachine, about half a mile from the north camp.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the club of the patrician and the plebeian gin-shop, in the coffee-house of the merchant or the barrack of the soldier, in London or the provinces, the same question was interesting the whole nation.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)