Barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnel and quasi-military personnel such as police. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old …

A barrack is a building where military personnel live. It’s usually used in the plural, as barracks. It’s also a verb — when soldiers lodge in barracks, they barrack there.

BARRACK definition: a building or group of buildings for lodging soldiers, especially in garrison. See examples of barrack used in a sentence.

barrack (ˈbærək) vb 1. to criticize loudly or shout against (a player, team, speaker, etc); jeer 2. (foll by: for) to shout support (for)

If people in an audience barrack public speakers or performers, they interrupt them, for example by making rude remarks.

barracks, military housing facility, usually spoken of, or written of, in the plural.

Phrasal verb barrack for someone (Definition of barrack from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Jan 20, 2026 · barrack (plural barracks) (military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent …

A feature of German housing which reformers desire to abolish: that is, of the many-storied barrack-flat system.

Barrack definition: To house (soldiers, for example) in quarters.