Tavern definitions

tăv'ərn
The definition of tavern is a place of business where alcoholic drinks are served along with a limited variety of food and snack items are served to travelers and locals.

An example of a tavern is a small place on a highway that serves beer and wine and chicken wings.

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A place of business that serves alcoholic beverages and often basic meals.
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An inn for travelers.
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A place where liquors, beer, etc. are sold to be drunk on the premises; saloon; bar.
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An inn.
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A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks; an inn.
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Origin of tavern

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

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.

  • "Well, then," answered the stranger, "I will see what they can do for me at the Planters' Tavern, round the corner;" and he rode away.

  • "Do you know the tavern with the sword and dagger on its sign?" the noblewoman asked.

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