Other forms: barbers
A barber is a person who cuts men's hair. Go to the barber, the barber shop, a good barber.
The trade was once surgery as well: barbers pulled teeth and let blood, and the red and white pole outside is a relic of it — the red for blood and the white for the bandage. Barber and surgeon were separated by law in Britain in 1745. Note that the Latin barba means a beard.
1nounbarberA person who cuts men's hair.
“He goes to the barber every month for a short haircut.”
barber is a trade.
Old French barbeor comes from barbe, a beard, from Latin barba. Barbecue is unrelated despite the resemblance.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰardʰéh₂
Latin
barba
Old French
barbeor
Anglo-Norman
barbour
Middle English
barbour
English, today
barber
Built from
From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA