Plural-in-form noun that may take singular or plural agreement.
Translations
After lights-out, the cadets had to stay inside the barracks.
Après l’extinction des feux, les cadets devaient rester dans la caserne.
casernePar extension, pour un grand bâtiment austère ou peu attrayant. A building or group of buildings where soldiers live and sleep. After lights-out, the cadets had to stay inside the barracks.
Any large, plain, and often unattractive building resembling military housing. The new student dormitory was criticized as an ugly concrete barracks.