barracks

/ ˈbærəks /

plural noun

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

2. any large building used for housing people, esp temporarily

3. a large and bleak building

Word History and Origins

Origin of barracks¹

C17: from French baraque , from Old Catalan barraca hut, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

The new Russian contractors mostly remain in their barracks to focus on training the local army, the European officials say, limiting their effectiveness.

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On a Saturday afternoon, soldiers fan out in Caracas' Petare neighbourhood to fulfil Maduro's order that "the barracks come to the people".

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That could include swapping some hotels for former military barracks or disused warehouses, as the health minister Stephen Kinnock suggested earlier on Sky News.

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Many of his supporters spent weeks camped outside army barracks in an attempt to convince the military to prevent Lula from being sworn in.

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On October 23, 1983, in a disaster that deeply embarrassed President Ronald Reagan on the world stage, 241 U.S. service personnel died in their barracks in an explosion on a military base in Beirut, Lebanon.

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