Tavern Definition

tăvərn
taverns
noun
taverns
A place of business that serves alcoholic beverages and often basic meals.
American Heritage
A place where liquors, beer, etc. are sold to be drunk on the premises; saloon; bar.
Webster's New World
An inn.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Tavern

Noun

Singular:
tavern
Plural:
taverns

Origin of Tavern

  • Middle English taverne from Old French from Latin taberna hut, tavern probably from traberna from trabs trab- beam trave

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French taverne (“wine shop"), from Latin taberna (“inn").

    From Wiktionary

Tavern Sentence Examples

  • About two hundred yards away there's a tavern where ours have already gathered.

  • The vestals were vowed to, chastity, lived together in a great nunnery, were forbidden to open or enter a tavern, and together with other votaries had many privileges.

  • It was instituted in 1755 at the White Bear Inn (now St Bride's Tavern), Fleet Street, moved about 1850 to Discussion Hall, Shoe Lane, and in 1871 finally migrated to the Barley Mow Inn, Salisbury Square, E.C., its present quarters.

  • He strode to the edge of the tavern.

  • The Elmendorf Tavern (1723) was the meeting-place of the New York Council of Safety in October 1 777.

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Words Starting With

TTATAV

Words Ending With

NRNERN

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