tavern

Word family

Related topics: Drink, Leisure

tav·ern /ˈtævən $ -ərn/ noun [countableC]

1. British EnglishBrE 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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