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beerhouse

beerhouse noun: a tavern or restaurant in which the primary drink served is beer.

beerhouse: a tavern or restaurant in which the primary drink served is beer
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Noun

beerhouse (plural beerhouses)

  1. A tavern or restaurant in which the primary drink served is beer.
    • Near-synonyms: (broadly synonymous) alehouse, beer parlour, beer bar, pub, saloon; (overlapping) brewpub

Synonyms of beerhouse

All synonyms of beerhouse

Forms of beerhouse

pluralbeerhouses
alternative formbeer-house
alternative formbeer house

Origin of beerhouse

From Middle English beerhouse, from Old English *bēorhūs, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀahūs (“beerhouse”), equivalent to beer + house.

Questions about beerhouse

What does beerhouse mean?
Beerhouse means a tavern or restaurant in which the primary drink served is beer.
What part of speech is beerhouse?
Beerhouse is a noun.
What is the plural of beerhouse?
The plural of beerhouse is beerhouses.

Words near beerhouse in the dictionary

  1. beerhead
  2. beerheads
  3. beerhood
  4. beerhound
  5. beerhounds
  6. beerhouse
  7. beerhouses
  8. beerier
  9. beeriest
  10. beerily
  11. beeriness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beerhouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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