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BNC: 7822 COCA: 11471

barley

barley /ˈbɑɚli/ noun
barley
/ˈbɑɚli/
noun
Learner's definition of BARLEY
[noncount]
: a kind of grain used for food and to make beer and whiskey
also : the plant on which this grain grows大麦粒;大麦
BNC: 7822 COCA: 11471

barley

noun

bar·​ley ˈbär-lē How to pronounce barley (audio)
: a cereal grass (genus Hordeum and especially H. vulgare) having the flowers in dense spikes with long awns and three spikelets at each joint of the rachis
also : its seed used especially in malt beverages, breakfast foods, and stock feeds

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The red rice is said to have been created when Penda Mbaye, a Senegalese cook who worked in the home of a French colonial governor, ran out of barley. Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022 Around 4 million metric tons of barley and 9 million metric tons of wheat have been harvested so far this summer, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food. Jared Malsin, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022 Pot still whiskey uses a mash bill of malted and unmalted barley. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 19 May 2022 Crops of cold-hardy barley have thrived on the Tibetan Plateau for thousands of years, and the grain has long been a staple of high-altitude diets there. Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 4 May 2022 Farmers in central Arizona, among the state’s largest producers of livestock, dairy, alfalfa, wheat and barley, lost most of their Colorado River allocation last year when the government announced its first shortage. Suman Naishadham, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022 Some farmers like Button continue to grow traditional foods, while other Indigenous farmers nurture fields of potatoes, wheat and barley. AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2022 Much of Ukraine’s grain crop is winter wheat and barley, sown in early fall and harvested the following summer. New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022 While the start of shipments is promising for Ukrainian farmers and the country’s mainly developing-world buyers, the flow of corn, wheat and barley will still be lower than before the war. Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English barly, from Old English bærlic of barley; akin to Old English bere barley, Latin far spelt

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of barley was before the 12th century
BNC: 7822 COCA: 11471
barley

noun

ADJECTIVE | ... OF BARLEY | VERB + BARLEY | BARLEY + VERB | BARLEY + NOUN ADJECTIVEmalted, malting大麥芽roasted烘烤過的大麥pearl珍珠大麥wild野生大麥feed飼料用大麥Feed barley prices are set to rise.飼料用大麥的價格要上漲。spring, winter春大麥;冬大麥... OF BARLEYear一穗大麥field一片大麥田VERB + BARLEYgrow種植大麥sow播種大麥cut, harvest收割大麥thresh給大麥脫粒grind碾磨大麥BARLEY + VERBgrow大麥生長ripen大麥成熟BARLEY + NOUNharvest大麥收割field大麥田grain大麥粒soup (especially NAmE) 大麥湯

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