Usually means: Fortified outpost or gateway defense.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word barbican:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. barbican: Merriam-Webster
  2. barbican: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barbican: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barbican, the Barbican: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barbican: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barbican, barbican: Wordnik
  7. barbican: Wiktionary
  8. barbican: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. barbican: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. barbican: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Barbican, barbican: Dictionary.com
  12. barbican: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Barbican (disambiguation), Barbican (drink), Barbican, The Barbican: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Barbican: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. barbican: Rhymezone
  16. Barbican: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. barbican: FreeDictionary.org
  18. barbican: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. barbican: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. barbican: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. barbican: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BARBICAN: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Barbican: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Barbican: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. Barbican: Castle Terms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See barbicans as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Barbican)

noun:  A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
noun:  A fortress at the end of a bridge.
noun:  An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
noun:  A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
noun:  A neighbourhood in Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4854).
noun:  A neighbourhood and residential estate in the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3281)

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