Meaning & use
barracks
A building or group of buildings used to house soldiers or other members of the military.
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The new recruits were assigned bunks in the crowded barracks.
Soldiers returned to the barracks after a long day of training exercises.
A note on using this word
Barracks is usually treated as a plural noun even when referring to a single building.
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