barraca — meaning in English

English meaning

• barrack noun A large, plain building used to house soldiers or other groups of people.
• cabin noun A small, simply built house, especially one made of logs in a rural or wooded area.
• lodge verb To become firmly fixed in a particular position.
• shack noun A small, roughly built hut or cabin.

Senses

barraca 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.
• cabin (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
• lodge A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
• shack A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

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.

cabin — full definition

1. noun A small, simply built house, especially one made of logs in a rural or wooded area.
2. noun A private room on a ship, or the passenger area of an aircraft.

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