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barber

1

[ bahr-ber ]

noun

  1. a person whose occupation it is to cut and dress the hair of customers, especially men, and to shave or trim the beard.


verb (used with object)

  1. to trim or dress the hair or beard of.

Barber

2

[ bahr-ber ]

noun

  1. Samuel, 1910–81, U.S. composer.

barber

1

/ ˈbɑːbə /

noun

  1. a person whose business is cutting men's hair and shaving or trimming beards


verb

  1. to cut the hair of
  2. to shave or trim the beard of

Barber

2

/ ˈbɑːbə /

noun

  1. BarberSamuel19101981MUSMUSIC: composer Samuel . 1910–81, US composer: his works include an Adagio for Strings , adapted from the second movement of his string quartet No. 1 (1936) and the opera Vanessa (1958)

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Other Words From

  • un·barbered adjective
  • well-barbered adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of barber1

1275–1325; Middle English barbour < Anglo-French; Old French barbeor, equivalent to barb ( e ) (< Latin barba beard) + -eor < Latin -ātōr- -ator

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Word History and Origins

Origin of barber1

C13: from Old French barbeor , from barbe beard, from Latin barba

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Example Sentences

Business owners swept up glass in front of their barber shop.

That is why Malloy is campaigning on a lonely stretch of barber shops and boxing gyms in New Haven a week before the election.

Gone are the days of corner suites, an on-staff barber, and diamond medallions given to employees.

“If you say a bad word about someone here, it gets around fast,” said Jack West, the barber.

He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.

For about thirty feet from the ground this was painted in coloured stripes very much like a barber's pole.

A barber having a dispute with a parish clerk on a point of grammar, the latter said it was a downright barbarism, indeed.

Even the cribbage game under the barber shop was suspended, and the cribbage game was an institution.

They both found me under the barber's hand; but I had a bottle of good sack in the house, and so made them very welcome.

At night before I went to bed the barber came to trim me and wash me, and so to bed, in order to my being clean to-morrow.

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