Tavern

Tav′ern

,

Noun.

[OE.

taverne

, F.

taverne

, from L.

taberna

a hut, booth, tavern. Cf.

Table

,

Tabernacle

.]

A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

Tavern

TAV'ERN

,

Noun.

[L. taberna; tab, the root of table, a board.]

A house licensed to see liquors in small quantities, to be drank on the spot. In some of the United States, tavern is synonymous with inn or hotel, and denotes a house for the entertainment of travelers, as well as for the sale of liquors, licensed for that purpose.

tavern

English

Noun

tavern ‎(plural taverns)

A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks; an inn.
- 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter III:
  At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Derived terms

tavernous

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See also Wikisaurus:pub

Translations

bar

Armenian: պանդոկ (hy) ‎(pandok)
Bulgarian: механа (bg) n ‎(mehana)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 酒館 (zh), 酒馆 (zh) ‎(jiǔguǎn), 酒店 (zh) ‎(jiǔdiàn), 客棧 (zh), 客栈 (zh) ‎(kèzhàn) (inn)
Czech: hostinec (cs) m, krčma (cs) f
Dutch: taverne (nl) f
Esperanto: drinkejo, taverno, gastejo
Finnish: kapakka (fi), kievari (fi), taverna (fi), pubi (fi), ravintola (fi)
French: taverne (fr) f
German: Gasthaus (de) n
Greek: ταβέρνα (el) f ‎(tavérna), καπηλειό (el) n ‎(kapileió)
Hungarian: csárda (hu), kocsma (hu)
Icelandic: krá (is) f, knæpa f
Ido: taverno (io)
Irish: teach tábhairne m, teach óil m, teach ósta m
Italian: taverna (it) f, osteria (it) f, birreria (it) f
Japanese: 居酒屋 ‎(いざかや, izakaya), タバーン ‎(tabān), 酒場 ‎(さかば, sakaba)
Khmer: ភោជនាគារ (km) ‎(pʰoucea’niekie)
Korean: 주막 ‎(jumak), 선술집 (ko) ‎(seonsuljip), 술집 (ko) ‎(suljip)
Latin: taberna f

Macedonian: кр́чма f ‎(kŕčma), гости́лница f ‎(gostílnica), би́ртија f ‎(bírtija)
Maori: pāparakāuta
Norwegian: kro m, taverna m
Osage: hpéeceniihci
Portuguese: taberna (pt) f
Romanian: bodegă (ro) f, berărie (ro) f, braserie (ro) f
Russian: бар (ru) m ‎(bar), каба́к (ru) m ‎(kabák), таве́рна (ru) f ‎(tavérna), заку́сочная (ru) f ‎(zakúsočnaja), пивна́я (ru) f ‎(pivnája)
Scottish Gaelic: taigh-seinnse m
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: krčma (sh) f, ugostionica f, gostionica (sh) f
Slovak: krčma (sk) f
Slovene: gostilna f
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: kjarcma f

Upper Sorbian: korčma f
Spanish: taberna (es) f
Swedish: gästgiveri (sv) n, krog (sv) c
Tagalog: taberna
Vietnamese: tửu quán (vi)
Welsh: tafarn (cy)

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