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.
2. frost smoke ( def ).

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. 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)

barber

²

/ 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

Other Words From

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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of barber¹

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

Example Sentences

Harry Raymond, a reporter for the Daily Worker, a communist newspaper published in New York City that campaigned against racial discrimination, counted 34 bullets in front of a barber shop.

From Washington Post

They were classified as high-risk close contacts to the barber, who had several negative test results before being allowed into the facility.

From Washington Post

Now with barely 25 hours of work a week and bills piling up, Barber, 60, worries the federal government will resume withholding 12 percent of her paycheck for a past-due student loan.

From Washington Post

For Barber, the new position is the latest step in a professional career spent working both inside and outside the tech industry.

From TechCrunch

All of them must close up, that is, except barber shops and hair salons.

From Voice of San Diego

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg