Barren

Barren primarily refers to a state of Barrenness (infertility)

Barren as a place name can refer to:

  • Barren County, Kentucky
  • Barren Island (Andaman Islands)
  • Barren Island, Brooklyn
  • Barren River Lake

Barren can also refer to:

  • Barren County (album)
  • Barren County Progress
  • Barren Realms Elite
  • Barren Strawberry (disambiguation), various meanings
  • Cape Barren Goose
  • barren vegetation

Famous quotes containing the word barren:

    “Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?”
    —Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

    “Nothing can we call our own but death,
    And that small model of the barren earth
    Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “It little profits that an idle king,
    By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
    Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
    Unequal laws unto a savage race
    That hoard, and sleep, and feed,”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)