barrier
A structure that bars passage.
Example
“The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.”
Other meanings
An obstacle or impediment.
“Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.”
A boundary or limit.
“Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.”
A kind of
- obstruction
Kinds of barrier
- mole
- dam
- fence
- wing
- movable barrier
- rail
- tilt barrier
Related words
- allobarrier
- barrierless
- barrierlike
- barristor
- biobarrier
- cyberbarrier
- immunobarrier
- metabarrier
- multibarrier
- nanobarrier
- subbarrier
- superbarrier
Example sentences
Word history
From Anglo-Norman "barrere".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “barrier” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.