Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barracoon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bar-ra-coon
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A temporary cage for holding (originally) black slaves, and later convicts and other types of prisoners.

Example Sentences

"Beyond Cape Palmas, the coast line is a beach of bright white sand, from which the slave barracoons have now disappeared […]."
"He was now a prisoner, and—thrust into a suffocating barracoon, herded with the foulest of mankind, with all imaginable depths of blasphemy and indecency sounded hourly in his sight and hearing—he lost his self-respect, and became what the jailers took him to be […]."

Etymology

From Spanish barracón, barraca.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: barracón

Inflected Forms

barracoons (plural)

Questions

What does barracoon mean?: A temporary cage for holding (originally) black slaves, and later convicts and other types of prisoners.
Where does barracoon come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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