Barren

  • 21Barren — Bar|ren [ barən], der; s, : 1. für den Handel übliches Stück aus nicht bearbeitetem Edelmetall in der Form eines Quaders, Zylinders o. Ä.: ein Barren Gold. Zus.: Goldbarren, Metallbarren, Silberbarren. 2. (Sport) Turngerät mit zwei durch… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 22barren — [[t]bæ̱rən[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees. ...the Tibetan landscape of high barren mountains. Ant: fertile 2) ADJ GRADED Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot… …

    English dictionary

  • 23Barren — Unter Barren versteht man: Im Sport: einen Barren (Turngerät) einen Stufenbarren (Turngerät) den Russischen Barren, ein Gerät aus dem Bereich Zirkus und Varieté eine Methode Springpferde zu vorsichtigerem Springen zu erziehen Barren (Reitsport)… …

    Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 24barren — bar|ren [ berən ] adjective 1. ) barren land is dry and plants cannot grow there a ) a barren place is dry and empty, with few plants growing: DESOLATE: a remote and barren island b ) a barren tree or plant does not produce any fruit 2. ) without …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 25barren — UK [ˈbærən] / US [ˈberən] adjective 1) barren land is dry and plants cannot grow there a) a barren place is dry and empty, with few plants growing a remote and barren island b) a barren tree or plant does not produce any fruit 2) a) without any… …

    English dictionary

  • 26barren — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English bareine, from Anglo French barain, perhaps of Celtic origin; akin to Middle Welsh brynar fallow land Date: 13th century 1. not reproducing: as a. incapable of producing offspring used especially of females… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 27barren — barrenly, adv. barrenness, n. /bar euhn/, adj. 1. not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile: a barren woman. 2. unproductive; unfruitful: barren land. 3. without capacity to interest or attract: a barren period in American… …

    Universalium

  • 28barren — bar|ren [ˈbærən] adj [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: baraine] 1.) land or soil that is barren has no plants growing on it ▪ Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert. 2.) old fashioned unable to produce children or baby animals …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 29barren — adjective 1 land or soil that is barren has no plants growing on it: a barren mountainous area 2 old use a woman or a female animal who is barren cannot produce children or baby animals; infertile (2) 3 a tree or plant that is barren does not… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 30barren — /ˈbærən / (say baruhn) adjective 1. incapable of producing, or not producing, offspring; sterile. 2. unproductive; unfruitful: *a man from back country who had once worked a barren and hopeless holding that he had tried to milk with half a dozen… …