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Meaning of Byre | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈbaɪɚ

Definitions

A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.

British

Equivalents

Български обор
Cymraeg beudy
Dansk stald
Deutsch Kuhstall
Ελληνικά βουστάσιο
Esperanto bovejo
Español vaquería vaqueriza
Suomi navetta
Français étable
Gàidhlig bàthach
עברית רפת
Italiano vaccheria
Latviešu kūts
Nederlands Koestal
Polski obora
Português Vacaria
Русский коровник хлев

Examples

“It was here in the kitchen, in the passage, In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market-place [...]”
“’Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’”
“The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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