barracks
Britishplural noun
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a building or group of buildings used to accommodate military personnel
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any large building used for housing people, esp temporarily
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a large and bleak building
Etymology
Origin of barracks
C17: from French baraque , from Old Catalan barraca hut, of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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For decades, proportional response functioned less as a strategy than a ritual: hit a transmitter, strike a barracks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Home Office Minister Alex Norris said the fall was due to increased removals of people with no right to stay in the UK and housing others in alternative sites such as military barracks.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Besides the chapel, they are a trolley station, a wing of barracks and the superintendent’s and governor’s residences.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
I spoke to sources who have worked in a defense capacity, and they said most likely this was human error—that it’s right next to a barracks and it could have been an error in combat.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2026
Finally one of the guards told us to go to our barracks.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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