barbershop

[bahr-ber-shop] / ˈbɑr bərˌʃɒp /

NOUN

hair-dressing establishment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

beauty parlor beauty salon

STRONG

barber

WEAK

hair salon hairdressing salon styling salon tonsorium

Example Sentences

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Angel Delgadillo Sr. had opened a pool hall and barbershop along the road.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

BIRMINGHAM, England—The neighborhood around Harris Hussein’s barbershop in this once thriving industrial city is marked by potholes and strewn with piles of uncollected trash.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Local barbershop Gornik & Drucker doesn’t know if it can reopen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

Saman says working illegally in a car wash, barbershop or mini-mart would have been very easy to do, but he told us he would never have done that.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

“What boy needs to be hanging around a barbershop with crazy grown men?”

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist