barry
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
/ˈbæɹ.ɪ/
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/ˈbæɹ.ɪ/ · /ˈbæɹ.i/ · /ˈbɛɹ.i/ · /ˈbeɹ.i/ · /ˈbɑː.ɹi/ · /ˈbɑɹ.i/
Definition of barry
18 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
name
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A male given name from Irish.
“Above left, Kathryn Bigelow with the cinemaphotographer Barry Ackroyd on the set of The Hurt Locker.”
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A male given name from Irish.
“Above left, Kathryn Bigelow with the cinemaphotographer Barry Ackroyd on the set of The Hurt Locker.”
- A surname from Irish derived from the given name, or from place names in Scotland and Wales.
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- A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.
- A diminutive of the male given name Barack.
noun
- A field divided transversely into several equal parts, and consisting of two different tinctures interchangeably disposed.
adj
- (not-comparable)Traversed (transversely) by bars.
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Of a dyed material: having bars or bands of color.
“[…] many examples of the degree of coverage of barry nylon with various ranges of dyes are listed […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Anglicized form of Irish Barra, short form of Fionnbharr, from fionn (“white”) + barr (“head”).
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