"barre" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /bɑː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɑɹ/ [General-American], [bɑɹ] [General-American], [bɑ˞] [General-American], /baː/ [Australia] Audio: en-us-bar.ogg [US], en-uk-baa.ogg [UK] Forms: barres [plural]
enPR: bär [General-American] Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|barre}} French barre, {{doublet|en|bar}} Doublet of bar Head templates: {{en-noun}} barre (plural barres)
  1. (ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises. Translations (a handrail fixed to a wall): tanko (Finnish), barre [feminine] (French), Ballettstange [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-barre-en-noun-lvdWWy4j Categories (other): Ballet Disambiguation of 'a handrail fixed to a wall': 81 19
  2. (music) Ellipsis of barre chord. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: barre chord
    Sense id: en-barre-en-noun-1ruuZAB1 Categories (other): Music, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 17 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 45 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 54 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 17 entries: 1 0 3 0 1 0 6 9 5 1 4 4 2 4 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 8 1 6 8 1 10 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 0 2 0 0 0 6 10 6 0 5 5 2 5 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 1 3 0 0 9 1 7 9 1 11 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 19 50 31 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 24 45 31 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 19 50 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 18 50 31 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Verb

IPA: /bɑː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɑɹ/ [General-American], [bɑɹ] [General-American], [bɑ˞] [General-American], /baː/ [Australia] Audio: en-us-bar.ogg [US], en-uk-baa.ogg [UK] Forms: barres [present, singular, third-person], barring [participle, present], barred [participle, past], barred [past]
enPR: bär [General-American] Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|barre}} French barre, {{doublet|en|bar}} Doublet of bar Head templates: {{en-verb}} barre (third-person singular simple present barres, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
  1. (music) To form a barre chord on an instrument. Translations (to form a barre chord): bấm ba-rê (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-barre-en-verb-kbPLgrXW Categories (other): Music Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to form a barre chord",
      "word": "bấm ba-rê"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.