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BARBER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Barber mean?
• BARBER (noun)
The noun BARBER has 2 senses:
1. United States composer (1910-1981)
2. a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade
Familiarity information: BARBER used as a noun is rare.
• BARBER (verb)
The verb BARBER has 1 sense:
1. perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of
Familiarity information: BARBER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States composer (1910-1981)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Barber; Samuel Barber
Instance hypernyms:
composer (someone who composes music as a profession)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("barber" is a kind of...):
hairdresser; hairstylist; styler; stylist (someone who cuts or beautifies hair)
Derivation:
barber (perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it barbers Past simple: barbered
Past participle: barbered
-ing form: barbering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "barber" is one way to...):
groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
barber (a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade)
Context examples
I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In a barber's window I saw tails of hair with the prices marked, and one black tail, not so thick as mine, was forty dollars.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The lens discloses a large number of hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, my little coz, said he, I have come across to tell you that I live above the barber's in the Rue de la Tour, and that there is a venison pasty in the oven and two flasks of the right vintage on the table.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The time from December 19 to January 3 will be a great time to buy new clothes and find ways to refresh your appearance, for Venus will see to it that you find beautiful wardrobe options and will enjoy the results of experts you hire (hairstylist, esthetician, barber, Botox doctor, and so forth).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Miss Temple, that girl's hair must be cut off entirely; I will send a barber to-morrow: and I see others who have far too much of the excrescence—that tall girl, tell her to turn round.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
My head feels deliciously light and cool, and the barber said I could soon have a curly crop, which will be boyish, becoming, and easy to keep in order.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I used to attend the king’s levee once or twice a week, and had often seen him under the barber’s hand, which indeed was at first very terrible to behold; for the razor was almost twice as long as an ordinary scythe.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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