Barrie
noun
Sir James M(atthew), 1860–1937, Scottish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
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Barrie
American
[bar-ee]
/ ˈbær i /
noun
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Sir James M(atthew), 1860–1937, Scottish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
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a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto.
Barrie
1
British
/ ˈbærɪ /
noun
barrie
2
British
/ ˈbærɪ /
adjective
Etymology
Origin of barrie
from Romany
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As the director Barrie Kosky observed in an interview earlier this year, the famous spectacles occupy perhaps 20 minutes of roughly 16 hours of music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Born Barbara Berman in Chicago in 1931, Barrie and her family moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, where she attended Del Mar College.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The silent-movie panache of Barrie Kosky’s production, which opened Saturday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and runs through June 21, is on its way to becoming a perennial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, a property developer, made headlines in 1999 when he and his partner at the time, Tony, became known as Britain's first gay fathers, having become parents through a surrogate mother.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Most of all, he didn’t factor in the power of my Latin teachers, Miss Barrie and Miss Silber.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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