Baracke — meaning in English

English meaning

• barrack noun A large, plain building used to house soldiers or other groups of people.
• hovel noun A small, poorly built and often squalid dwelling; a shack.

Senses

Baracke is used for these senses in English:

• barrack (military, chiefly, in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
• barrack (US) A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
• hovel (pejorative) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

barrack — full definition

1. noun A large, plain building used to house soldiers or other groups of people.
2. verb To house someone in a barrack, or to live in one.
3. verb (chiefly British and Australian) To shout support for, or jeer at, a team or speaker.

hovel — full definition

1. noun A small, poorly built and often squalid dwelling; a shack.
2. noun A simple open shed for sheltering animals or storing produce.

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