"barbican" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bɪkən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-barbican.wav Forms: barbicans [plural]
Etymology: From Old French barbacane, of uncertain origin: compare Arabic بَرْبَخ (barbaḵ, “aqueduct, sewer”), and Persian بابخانه (bâb-xâne, “gatehouse”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|barbacane}} Old French barbacane, {{cog|ar|بَرْبَخ|t=aqueduct, sewer}} Arabic بَرْبَخ (barbaḵ, “aqueduct, sewer”), {{cog|fa|بابخانه|t=gatehouse|tr=bâb-xâne}} Persian بابخانه (bâb-xâne, “gatehouse”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} barbican (plural barbicans)
  1. A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town. Translations (A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town): barbakana (Basque), барбакан (barbakan) [masculine] (Bulgarian), barbacana [feminine] (Catalan), barbakán [masculine] (Czech), barbacane [feminine] (Dutch), barbakano (Esperanto), barbakaan (Estonian), barbacane [feminine] (French), barbacá [feminine] (Galician), Barbakane [feminine] (German), barbakán (Hungarian), barbacane [masculine] (Italian), barbakāns [masculine] (Latvian), barbakanas [masculine] (Lithuanian), barbacana (Occitan), barvacãa [feminine] (Old Portuguese), barbakan [masculine] (Polish), rondel [masculine] (Polish), barbacã [feminine] (Portuguese), barbacană [feminine] (Romanian), барбака́н (barbakán) [masculine] (Russian), стре́льница (strélʹnica) [feminine] (Russian), барбакан [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), barbakan [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), barbakán [masculine] (Slovak), barbakan [masculine] (Slovene), barbacana [feminine] (Spanish), барбака́н (barbakán) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-barbican-en-noun-v1wlmJte Disambiguation of 'A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town': 95 2 1 2
  2. A fortress at the end of a bridge. Categories (topical): Buildings
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  3. An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
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  4. A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
    Sense id: en-barbican-en-noun-e3tcnVRD
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: barbacan Synonyms (see guardhouse): entryway fortification Derived forms: barbicanage, barbicaned Related terms: bartisan
Disambiguation of 'see guardhouse': 5 49 40 6

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "2": "fro",
        "3": "barbacane"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French barbacane",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "بَرْبَخ",
        "t": "aqueduct, sewer"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic بَرْبَخ (barbaḵ, “aqueduct, sewer”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "بابخانه",
        "t": "gatehouse",
        "tr": "bâb-xâne"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian بابخانه (bâb-xâne, “gatehouse”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French barbacane, of uncertain origin: compare Arabic بَرْبَخ (barbaḵ, “aqueduct, sewer”), and Persian بابخانه (bâb-xâne, “gatehouse”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "barbicans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "barbican (plural barbicans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bartisan"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter V, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):",
          "text": "The stone part of the drawbridge with its barbican and the bartizans of the gatehouse are in good repair. […] There was a large hidden trapdoor in the floor of the barbican, which would let them into the moat after all.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tower",
          "tower"
        ],
        [
          "entrance",
          "entrance"
        ],
        [
          "castle",
          "castle"
        ],
        [
          "fortified",
          "fortified"
        ],
        [
          "town",
          "town"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A fortress at the end of a bridge."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fortress",
          "fortress"
        ],
        [
          "bridge",
          "bridge"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 11]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "loophole",
          "loophole"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɑː(ɹ)bɪkən/"
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "see guardhouse",
      "word": "entryway fortification"
    },
    {
      "word": "barbacan"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "word": "barbakana"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "barbakan",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "барбакан"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barbacana"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barbakán"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barbacane"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "word": "barbakano"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "word": "barbakaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barbacane"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barbacá"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbakane"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "word": "barbakán"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barbacane"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barbakāns"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barbakanas"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "word": "barbacana"
    },
    {
      "code": "roa-opt",
      "lang": "Old Portuguese",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barvacãa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barbakan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rondel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barbacã"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barbacană"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "barbakán",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "барбака́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "strélʹnica",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "стре́льница"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "барбакан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barbakan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barbakán"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barbakan"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barbacana"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "barbakán",
      "sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "барбака́н"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "barbican"
  ],
  "word": "barbican"
}

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