Dictionary

byre en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbaɪɚ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbaɪə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English bire, bier, byr, from Old English bȳre.

Meanings

1. (UK) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
   • 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. 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition)
   • ’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.[…]’ 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
   • It was here in the kitchen, in the passage, In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market-place [...] 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:

Forms

Coordinates

cowshed

Deriveds

byre-dwelling · byrewoman

Synonyms

cowbarn · cowhouse

Translations (41)

vo veteralecek (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · gd bàthach (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · ar حَظِيرَة (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · fi navetta (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · pl obora (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · ga cró beithíoch (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · pt vacaria (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · lv kuts (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · fr étable (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · kw bowji (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · ar زَرِيبَة (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · he רֶפֶת (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · da stald (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · ru коро́вник (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · vo bubalecek (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · nn fjøs (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · gl corte (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · el βουστάσιο (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · grc μάνδρα (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · nb fenafjøs (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · gl loxa (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · crh azbar (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · hi गौशाला (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · cv вите (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · nl koestal (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · cmn 牛舍 (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · eo bovejo (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · it vaccheria (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · bg обор (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · ga bóitheach (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · cmn 牛棚 (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · ru хлев (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · nb fjøs (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · tpi haus bulmakau (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · hu tehénistálló (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · cy beudy (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · de Kuhstall (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · vo kunalecek (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · hi अश्वशाला (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · es vaqueriza (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) · es vaquería (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle)