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tavernous

tavernous adjective: resembling or characteristic of a tavern.

Adjective

tavernous (comparative more tavernous, superlative most tavernous)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tavern.
    • My Cambridge Union was a low, ill-ventilated, ill-lit apartment at the back of the Red Lion Inn, cavernous, tavernous—something between a commercial room and a district branch meeting-house.1872, Joseph Irving, The annals of our time: a diurnal of events, social and political, home and foreign, from February 24, 1871, to the Jubilee, June 20, 1887

Forms of tavernous

comparativemore tavernous
superlativemost tavernous

Origin of tavernous

From tavern + -ous.

Questions about tavernous

What does tavernous mean?
Tavernous means resembling or characteristic of a tavern.
What part of speech is tavernous?
Tavernous is an adjective.

Words near tavernous in the dictionary

  1. tavernless
  2. tavernlike
  3. tavernly
  4. tavernman
  5. tavernmen
  6. tavernous
  7. tavernry
  8. taverns
  9. tavernward
  10. tavernwards
  11. tavernwave

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