Barracks

/bˈæɹəks/

/ˈbæɹəks/, /ˈbɛɹəks/

[noun]

Barracks

[NOUN]

a building or a set of buildings for soldiers to live in

a temporary or makeshift housing for groups of people, such as workers, refugees, or disaster victims, often characterized by basic and communal living conditions

Examples

1. In the Foreign Legion, barracks is our home.

2. The wooden barracks with three-story bunks were our luxury housing.

3. They burned 100 schoolboys to death in a barracks.

4. We also now have a whole line of TG collectibles at the TG barracks.