Word.ws English Dictionary

nonbar

nonbar noun: a location that is not a bar (drinking establishment).

Noun

nonbar (plural nonbars)

  1. A location that is not a bar (drinking establishment).
    • Since Stonewall and second-wave feminism, nonbar space for lesbians within the public sphere has dramatically increased.2002, Kelly Hankin, The Girls in the Back Room: Looking at the Lesbian Bar, page 117
    • Although this variable was not met by most of the establishments, enough other variables (and subjective observations) were met to confidently classify these establishments as bars rather than nonbars.2010, Jeffery T. Walker, Sean Maddan, Criminology and Criminal Justice, page 89

Forms of nonbar

pluralnonbars

Origin of nonbar

From non- + bar.

Questions about nonbar

What does nonbar mean?
Nonbar means a location that is not a bar (drinking establishment).
What part of speech is nonbar?
Nonbar is a noun.
What is the plural of nonbar?
The plural of nonbar is nonbars.

Words near nonbar in the dictionary

  1. nonbankrupt
  2. nonbankruptcy
  3. nonbanks
  4. nonbaptismal
  5. nonbaptized
  6. nonbar
  7. nonbarbaric
  8. nonbarbarous
  9. nonbarbecue
  10. nonbarbecued
  11. nonbarbed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nonbar (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nonbar.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nonbar. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.