Meaning

noun an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

adjective providing no shelter or sustenance

adjective not bearing offspring

originFrom Middle English bareyne, from Anglo-Norman baraigne, baraing (“sterile; barren”), of obscure origin; probably from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *baʀ (“bare; barren”), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare”). If so, a doublet of bare.

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