tavern

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tav·ern /ˈtævən $ -ərn/ noun [countable]  1. British English old useDFDDL a pub where you can also stay the night 小旅店，客栈2  DFDDLa word for a bar, often used in the name of a bar 酒馆，酒吧〔常用于酒吧名〕 Murphy’s Tavern 墨菲酒馆

Examples from the Corpus

tavern• Here half a dozen hotels soon sprang up along with a hodge-podge of other shops, booths, and taverns.• Gainsborough had 44 hotels, inns and taverns, 9 beerhouses and 4 eating and boarding houses.• They put up at taverns, boarding houses, and, in the larger towns, hotels.• Holyrood Tavern A completely refurbished tavern which still retains much of the character of the old pub.• Those who shuffled cards in taverns now deal shares on the Net.• You can call the taverns tonight.• They frequented the tavern and engaged in unspecified lewd practices.• The newcomers spread out across the floor of the tavern, whilst customers dodged hurriedly out of their way.Origin tavern (1200-1300) Old French taverne, from Latin taberna “small simple building, shop”

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tavern
tav‧ern /ˈtævən $ -ərn/ noun [countable]1. British English old use a pub where you can also stay the night
2. a word for a bar, often used in the name of a bar:
    Murphy’s Tavern
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ bar a place where people go to buy and drink alcoholic drinks: A man went into a bar and ordered a drink. | Let’s meet up in the hotel bar. | The city centre is full of wine bars and restaurants. | The club has a restaurant and a cocktail bar.
   ▪ pub a building in Britain where alcohol can be bought and drunk, and where meals are often served: Do you fancy going to the pub? | a country pub
   ▪ public house British English formal a pub: The fight took place outside a public house in the city centre.
   ▪ sb’s local informal a pub near where you live, especially one you often go to: The Red Lion’s my local.
   ▪ inn a small hotel or pub, especially an old one in the countryside – often used in the name of the hotel or pub: The Bull Inn dates back to the 15th century. | The hotel was once a 17th century coaching inn (=used by people travelling by coach and horses).
   ▪ gastropub a pub that is known to serve very good food: a gastropub with a riverside restaurant | the Windmill Gastropub
   ▪ tavern British English a pub in the past where you could also stay the night – used nowadays in the names of some pubs: the Turf Tavern | Marlowe was killed in a fight in a tavern.
   ▪ watering hole informal a bar, pub etc where people drink alcohol – often used humorously. A watering hole is also the name for a place where wild animals go to drink: The bar became a popular watering hole for journalists. | What’s your favorite watering hole?
   ▪ dive informal a bar, club etc that is cheap and dirty: The place is a bit of dive.
   ▪ honky-tonk American English informal a cheap bar where country music is played: They played in every honky-tonk in Tennessee.
   ▪ saloon a bar in the western United States. Also used in Britain about the part of a pub which has comfortable chairs where you can sit and relax: I felt like a cowboy walking into a saloon in the Wild West. | Do you want to stay in the saloon, or would rather go into the other bar?

tav·ernBrE /ˈtævən/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtævərn/ 🔊 noun (old use or literary) a pub or an inn 酒馆；小旅店；客栈