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barton

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A barton is a farmyard or farmstead, especially in older rural English usage.

Detailed Definition
The word commonly referred to a farmyard and its surrounding buildings, and sometimes to a manor farm. In the poem, “the barton” locates 'Melia in a traditional West Country farming setting.
Example
Example in poetry:
“At home in the barton you said thee’ and thou’” uses barton for a farmyard or enclosed farm settlement; Thomas Hardy’s Wessex poems preserve rural terms that locate speakers in regional life; a barton can suggest work, animals, enclosure, and home rather than an abstract countryside; in a modern rural poem, retaining the word can honor local dialect and agricultural history
Additional Notes
“Barton” is an uncommon regional and historical term for a farmstead, as shown in “the barton.”; Found in the poem, The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
Other Meanings of “barton”
Also Known As
farmstead estate homestead
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