| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| barber |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bar·ber |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  bär b r |
| NOUN: | One whose business is to cut hair and to shave or trim beards. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: bar·bered, bar·ber·ing, bar·bers
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To cut the hair of. 2. To shave or trim the beard of. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To work as a barber. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French barbour, from Medieval Latin barb t r, from Latin barba, beard. See bhardh-- in Appendix I.
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