1. barracks - Noun
2. barracks - Verb
barracks
plural of barrack.
barracks (plural barracks)
(military) A group of buildings used by military personnel as housing.
There is a large barracks in this town and two other barracks are nearby.
barracks
third-person singular simple present indicative of barrack
Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks. Peter Ustinov
In our system of universal military training, barrack life must be reduced to a minimum, so that ultimately the Red barracks may completely disappear. Nikolai Bukharin
Like Machiavelli would say, little Jovana was five months old, and I was prepared to write even "I saw Feldmarshall Göring three times", just to slip away from the barracks for two days and see my little girl and her beautiful mother. Đorđe Balašević
When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh. James Jones
No masterpieces in huge frames to worship, ... and yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the market, the harbour's blue, the barracks. So much to do still, all of it praise. Derek Walcott
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience. Shelby Foote