barracks 1 of 2

noun

Definition of barracksnext
as in residence
a building or group of buildings typically used to house soldiers The soldier was moved to a different barracks. He was confined to barracks for insubordination.

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barracks

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verb

present tense third-person singular of barrack
1
as in targets

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2
as in rooms

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barracks
  1. residence
  2. garrison
  3. house
  4. fort
  5. camp
  6. place
  7. cantonment
  8. encampment
Noun
  • Many have viewed this swelling financial support, and the recent visits made by multiple tech executives to Trump's residence in Florida, as an attempt to curry favor with the incoming president.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • That home was the first residence that the couple had bought together after renting in Eagle Rock.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of residence
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  • The brigade may have assigned two of its 400-person battalions to a costly attack on the Ukrainian garrison in Pogrebki, in the no-man’s-land on the northwestern edge of the salient, starting in November.
    David Axe, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The camp is about 30 miles from the U.S. military's al-Tanf garrison, established in 2016.
    Jane Arraf, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of garrison
Noun
  • Greg and his father had built, largely by hand, a beautiful house with a 270-degree view of the San Francisco Bay, with a floor of hand-cut slate on which sat the baby grand piano.
    Peter Mehren, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
  • By 6:30 that morning, nothing remained save the shell of a house that was once owned by Mayer Singerman, a former village mayor and later where mother-in-law, Mignon, and husband, Tom McDade, spent their last days.
    Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
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Noun
  • Gales Ferry Intermodal had agreed from the start to preserve the footprint of the central fort, and the Archaeological Conservancy announced Dec. 26 a deal to save more.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Nestled in a scenic mountain pass, this is a hike-in park on an interpretive trail to the ruins of the fort.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 1 Jan. 2025
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  • From April through September, Alaska Helicopter Tours partners with six-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey’s AK Sled Dog Tours for an epic two-mile mush across the ice from their summer camp on Knik Glacier (traditionally named Skitnu Li’a).
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Hundreds of thousands are enduring a cold, rainy winter in tent camps along the windy coast.
    Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of camp
Noun
  • Such trends are causing wildfires to burn in unexpected places in the US as well.
    Kylie Mohr, Vox, 8 Jan. 2025
  • First, there are the January theater festivals, your place to dig into experimental work scattered across smaller venues throughout the city.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of place
Noun
  • And the cynicism of the reforms was exposed by the regime's unwillingness to extend them to military cantonment areas or to the federal capital.
    Ilhan Niaz, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2012
  • The military has established large cantonments in Tamil areas, treating civilians with a heavy hand.
    William McGowan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2012
Definition of cantonment
Noun
  • The football-field-sized tents have experienced what critics argue are all the adverse effects of the migrant crisis: a deadly shooting, a stabbing, a police raid and homeless encampments.
    Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • But the Ailey company’s encampment at City Center this year (through Jan. 5) is tinged with sadness, because Judith Jamison died in November.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
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