Barrie

American  

[bar-ee] / ˈbær i /

noun

1. Sir James M(atthew), 1860–1937, Scottish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

2. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto.

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Barrie ¹ British  

/ ˈbærɪ /

noun

1. Sir James Matthew . 1860–1937, Scottish dramatist and novelist, noted particularly for his popular children's play Peter Pan (1904)

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barrie ² British  

/ ˈbærɪ /

adjective

1. dialect very good; attractive

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Etymology

Origin of barrie

from Romany

Example Sentences

In 2019, the company imported Barrie Kosky’s provocative and brilliantly staged rethinking of “Bohème” from the Komische Oper in Berlin.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

But for Season 5, the creatives behind the show were looking to make “Vecna on steroids,” as Barrie Gower, the prosthetics wiz for “Stranger Things,” put it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2025

Sennott and her fellow executive producer Emma Barrie bought it to replace an identical piece their fellow executive producer Max Silvestri lost in the wildfires that ripped across the region earlier this year.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

Russian research papers on the topic also date to the 1950s, said Douglas Barrie, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank in London.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

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