tavern
Syllables: tav·ern/ˈtævən/US/ˈtævəɹn/
tavern noun: a restaurant or bar.
Noun
tavern (plural taverns)
- A restaurant or bar.
- A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and offering sleeping accommodations for travelers.
- I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betrayes his maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovve vvhat my boy hath don; Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], London: […] Thomas Scarlet for Cuthbert Burby, published 1594, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signature C3, verso
- Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky / I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, / "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup / Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."1859, Omar Khayyam, “(please specify the quatrain number in uppercase Roman numerals)”, in [Edward FitzGerald], transl., Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. […], facsimile...
- Synonyms:
- inn, alehouse, boozer, boozing ken, bousing ken, drinker, drinkery, gargle-factory, gin joint, groggery
Proper noun capitalized: Tavern
the Tavern
- New Inn Hall, Oxford, one of the earliest medieval halls of the University of Oxford.
tavern meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
tavern in Hindi
- bar
- मधुशाला madhuśālā, मदिरालय madirālay
tavern in Tamil
- அருந்தகம், பொது விடுதி, மதுவகம்
tavern in Urdu
- tavern
- میخانہ maixāna
tavern in Bengali
- পান্থশালা, মদের দোকান
More languagesFewer languages
- tavern in Malayalam
- സത്രം, വഴിയമ്പലം, മദ്യശാല
- tavern in Kannada
- ಕುಡಿವೆಡೆ, ತಂಗುವೆಡೆ, ತಂಗುಮನೆ, ನಿಲ್ಮನೆ
- tavern in Sanskrit
- गञ्जा gañjā
- tavern in Tagalog
- taberna
- tavern in Arabic
- حَانَة ḥāna
- tavern in Indonesian
- kedai
- tavern in Persian
- میکده mey-kade, میخانه mey-xâne, میستان meyestân
- tavern in Vietnamese
- tửu quán
Examples of tavern in a sentence
- I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.
- Dusty left the taproom of the tavern and wandered into the small arcade in back.
- Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
Synonyms of tavern
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Forms of tavern
| plural | taverns |
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Origin of tavern
From Middle English taverne, from Old French taverne (“wine shop”), from Latin taberna (“inn”). Doublet of taberna and taverna.
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Questions about tavern
- What does tavern mean?
- Tavern means a restaurant or bar.
- What is tavern in Hindi?
- Tavern in Hindi is मधुशाला (madhuśālā), मदिरालय (madirālay). See Tavern meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tavern?
- Tavern can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tavern?
- Tavern is pronounced /ˈtævən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tavern?
- The plural of tavern is taverns.
Words near tavern in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tavern (page history and authors); Tavern (page history and authors); tavern (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); میخانہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); tavern (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tavern (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tavern (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); गञ्जा (Sanskrit) (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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