Barra
noun
an island in NW Scotland, in the Outer Hebrides: fishing, crofting, tourism. Pop: 1078 (2001)
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Barra
1 British
/ ˈbærə /
noun
barra
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British
/ ˈbærə /
noun
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Since then, populations have been found on Tiree, Islay, Barra and Uist.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
CalMac cancelled a number of sailings on Friday and has amended the Saturday timetable for MV Isle of Mull - which runs between the mainland, South Uist and Barra.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
“We are expecting Super Cruise penetration in our truck portfolio to grow 4-5x next year,” Barra says in a letter to shareholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
On a call with investors, CEO Mary Barra noted that GM’s defense division recently notched several big contracts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
"I will tell him, child, and I promise you, Barra shall not go wanting."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Altering words and adding the odd slang term, a typical example was: "Zarra marra onna barra, Clara?"
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
The Queretaro team’s fan club, or "barra," will be banned from attending even local games for three years.
From Fox News ● Mar. 8, 2022
“When you say barra — ‘abroad’ in Egyptian Arabic — the implication is automatically of somewhere better,” Youssef Rakha, an Egyptian novelist, wrote in a 2020 essay, “Barra and Zaman.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
Diaz is proud of how efficiently his barra is running the business of football.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2011
As the Italian has diverse malattie, “divers diseases,” de Lollis suggests that barra should be varias and that maladias was somehow dropped from the text. 410-5 Leones.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson
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