Barn vs. Farmhouse — What's the Difference?

A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes. In North America, a barn refers to structures that house livestock, including cattle and horses, as well as equipment and fodder, and often grain.

A farmhouse is a building that serves as the primary quarters in a rural or agricultural setting. Historically, farmhouses were often combined with space for animals called a housebarn.

A large building for sheltering livestock, storing hay or other agricultural products, or housing equipment used for operating a farm.

A house attached to a farm, especially the main house in which the farmer lives

A large shed for the housing of vehicles, such as railroad cars.

A dwelling on a farm.

A particularly large, typically bare building

A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus:

Abbr. b(Physics) A unit of area equal to 10-24 square centimeters, used to measure cross sections in nuclear physics.

(traditionally and archetypally) A farmer's residence.

(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.

A house that was once a farmer's residence albeit today lived in by residents whose occupation is not farming.

(nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.

A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

An arena.

House for a farmer and family

(slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.

A child.

(transitive) To lay up in a barn.

A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.

A child. See Bairn.

To lay up in a barn.

An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter