Barbados

• Barbadoes (archaic)

From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.dɒs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊs/, /bɑɹˈbeɪ.dəs/, /bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊz/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /baɹˈba.dos/

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Barbados

2. An island and country in the Caribbean.

Barbados (third-person singular simple present Barbadoses, present participle Barbadosing, simple past and past participle Barbadosed)

1. (historical) To press-gang (force into naval service).
   • 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 7, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

     The Barbadian planters […] resorted to shipping in hundreds of Scottish and Irish soldiers who’d been taken prisoner during Oliver Cromwell’s conquest. When that supply ran out, they took to kidnapping children, so many that a new term was coined: “barbadosed” meant the same thing in the late seventeenth century as “shanghaied” would in the twentieth.

Barbados m

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Barbados ?

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bərˈba.ðus]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bərˈba.ðos]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baɾˈba.ðos]

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Barbados f

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• Petites Antilles

• barbadià

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbados]

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Barbados m inan (relational adjective barbadoský, demonym Barbadosan)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• “Barbados”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Barbados”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• barbadier
• barbadisk

Borrowed from English Barbados, from Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑrˈbeː.dɔs/

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• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧dos

Barbados n

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean) [from 17th c.]

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

From Portuguese Barbados.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑrbɑdos/, [ˈbɑ̝rbɑ̝do̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑrbɑdos
• Syllabification^(key): Bar‧ba‧dos
• Hyphenation^(key): Bar‧ba‧dos

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Barbados n (proper noun, genitive Barbados' or (with an article) Barbados)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒrbɒdos]
• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧dos
• Rhymes: -os

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• barbadosi

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Barbados f

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• barbadiano

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• barbader, barbadier
• barbadisk

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• barbadar
• barbadisk

Borrowed from English Barbados, from Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”).

• IPA^(key): /barˈba.dɔs/

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• Rhymes: -adɔs
• Syllabification: Bar‧ba‧dos

Barbados m inan (related adjective barbadoski)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declinable or undeclinable.

• Barbados in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.

• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧dos

Barbados f or m pl (sometimes plural only, in variation)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• barbadense
• barbadiano

• → Japanese: バルバドス (Barubados)

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Barbados m

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): /barbǎːdos/
• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧dos

Barbádos m inan (Cyrillic spelling Барба́дос)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbadɔs]

Barbados m inan (genitive singular Barbadosu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• “Barbados”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /barbâdɔs/

Barbâdos m inan

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Barbádos
genitive	Barbádosa
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Barbádos
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Barbádosa
dative (dajȃlnik)	Barbádosu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Barbádos
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Barbádosu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Barbádosom

• Barbádošan / Barbádošanka
• barbádoški

• “Barbados”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Barbados”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /baɾˈbados/ [baɾˈβ̞a.ð̞os]

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• Rhymes: -ados
• Syllabification: Bar‧ba‧dos

Barbados ?

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• Bridgetown

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Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.

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Barbados n (genitive Barbados)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• barbadisk (“Barbadian”, adjective)
• barbadier c (“Barbadian male”)
• barbadiska c (“Barbadian female”)

• Barbados in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

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Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): /barˈbeːdɔs/
• Rhymes: -eːdɔs

Barbados f

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)