Tavern

Definition: Tavern

Tavern

Noun

1. A building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tavern" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Etymology: Tavern \Tav"ern\, noun. [from Old English expression taverne, French taverne, from the Latin expression taberna hut, booth, tavern. Compare to Table, Tabernacle.]. (references)

Synonym: Tavern

Abode

Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse.

Drunkenness

Drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal, Bacchante; devotee to Bacchus; bum, guzzler, tavern haunter.

Crosswords: Tavern

Cornish (inn).

Moe's Tavern! Hold on, I'll check (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'm not cheap, I'm just old. I remember when a few bob got you a good meal, a bottle and a tavern wench (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

Duffy's Tavern (1954)

The Rogues' Tavern (1936)

Falstaff the Tavern Knight (1923)

The Tavern Knight (1920)

Sparkle's Tavern (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Liberty Tavern (reference)

• The Tavern in the Morning: A Hawkenlye Mystery (reference)

• The Tavern Knight (reference)

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Periodicals

• Restaurant Caterer And Tavern Statistics = Statistiques Restaurants Traiteurs (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Tavern (reference)

• Brendan Shine: Live at the Circus Tavern (reference)

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Music

• Purcell In The Court And Tavern (reference)

• Christmas at The Eagle Tavern (reference)

• Ye Old Tavern (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• American Tack 176T Tavern Oak Single Toggle Wallplate (reference)

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Alcoholism: [Raucous tavern scene from "The Rakes Progress"] / William Hogarth. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The upper engraving depicts the U.S. Potomac Flotilla in the Potomac between Freestone Point, Va., and Indian Head, Md., to prevent the passage of Confederates from Virginia to Maryland. Features seen include (from left to right): Tugboat Murray; USS Jacob Bell; Indian Head, Maryland; USS Yankee; USS Penguin; USS Satellite; USS Seminole; Confederate battery at Freestone Point; and the mouth of the Occoquan River. The lower engraving depicts a scene in Falls Village, Virginia, which was occupied by Federal troops. It shows Taylor's Tavern and the northern extremity of the town. Credit: NAVY.

Log house, from Tsyvozero village (Karsnoborsk Region) (19th century), interior, tavern room, reassembled at Malye Korely Architectural Preserve, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Suter's Tavern, K Street at 31st, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old Cheshire Cheese tavern, resort of Johnson and Goldsmith, London. Credit: Library of Congress.

Elmendorf Tavern, Kingston, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

William Pitt tavern, Portsmouth, N.H., probably erected in 1770. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cold Harbor Tavern, June 3, 1864. Credit: Library of Congress.

Warrens Station. Yellow Tavern. Junction of Weldon's U.S. R.R. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old stage coach tavern near Huntsville, Arkansas, now inhabited by rehabilitation client. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It was a tavern in the Rue Chaffaut

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Business

In such situations, café and tavern owners are free to choose their food supplier(s). (references)

The average café or tavern offers cheese, ham, pate, sandwiches, salads, omelets and Italian-style foods such as spaghetti and lasagna. (references)

For this reason, a large multinational franchise chain is treated in the same way that a small tavern operator, who is trying to squeeze more table space from the sidewalk or swindle unsuspecting clients is treated. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "tavern": Boyd Tavern ♦ fish tavern ♦ Rock Tavern ♦ tavern haunter ♦ tavern keeper. Additional references.

Beginning with "tavern": tavern-keeper, tavern-keepers, tavern-league.

Albanian

tavernë (pothouse), mejhane (dive, greasy spoon, joint, pothouse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فندق (caravanserai, hostel, hotel, inn), ‏مقهي بازخ, ‏مطعم (cafe, canteen, dining room, eatery, restaurant), ‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down), ‏حانة (bar, barroom, bush, cabaret, inn, pub, saloon), ‏خمارة (pub, saloon). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хан (caravanserai, hostel, house, inn, public, public house), кръчма (alehouse, bodega, boozer, cabaret, cantiniere, gin mill, gin-shop, grog-shop, house, inn, pub, public, public house, saloon, wine vault, wineshop), механа. (various references)

Chinese 

小酒馆, 客棧 . (various references)

Czech

taverna, krèma (boozer, dive, pub), hospùdka. (various references)

Dutch

uitspanning (inn), herberg (bar, hostel, inn, pub). (various references)

Esperanto

taverno (inn). (various references)

Faeroese

drykkjustova (bar, inn, pub). (various references)

Farsi 

میخانه (Cabaret). (various references)

French

taverne. (various references)

German

Kneipe (bar, barrel house, boozer, café, joint, pub, saloon), taverne (inn), schenke (inn, public bar), Gasthaus (eating house, inn). (various references)

Greek 

καπηλειό (grogshop, pothouse, pub, public house), μπαρ (bar, pub, public house), παμπ (pub), χάνι (inn, Khan). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסבאה (alehouse, bar, brasserie, pub, public house, saloon, taproom), פונדק (hostelry, inn, lodging house, road house), בית מרזח (pub, saloon). (various references)

Hungarian

kocsma (alehouse, boozer, dram-shop, grocery, jerry, jerry shop, jerry-shop, pot house, pub, public house, saloon, shades). (various references)

Indonesian

rumah penginapan, kedai tuak. (various references)

Irish

tábhairne. (various references)

Italian

trattoria (café), taverna, osteria (bar, inn, pub, public house, restaurant), bettola (joint). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

居酒屋 (bar, pub). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いざかや (bar, pub). (various references)

Korean 

주점. (various references)

Manx

thie oast (boozer, dram shop, hotel, inn, licensed house, pub, public house, saloon). (various references)

Pig Latin

averntay.(various references)

Portuguese

taberna (alehouse, canteen, public, tap-house, taproom). (various references)

Romanian

tavernã (ordinary, pub), han mic, cârciumã (ale-house, bar, crib, drinking house, gin-shop, grogshop, ordinary, peg house, porter house, pot house, pub, public house, saloon, taproom), bodegã (peg house, porter house, pub, tap house, wine vault). (various references)

Russian 

таверна (public house). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

taverna (brasserie), pivnica (alehouse, beerhouse, jerry shop, porterhouse), kafana (barroom, coffee palace, coffee room, pub). (various references)

Sicilian

osteria. (various references)

Spanish

taberna (bar, inn, local, pub, public house, saloon, taproom, taverna). (various references)

Swedish

värdshus (hostel, inn, pub, public house, public-house). (various references)

Thai

โรงแรมขนาดเล็ก, โรงเหล้า, ที่พักคนเดินทาง. (various references)

Turkish

taverna, meyhane (ale-house, bar, barrel house, boozer, cabaret, gin mill, grogshop, inn, pub, public house, saloon, shebang, shebeen, taproom), bar (ale-house, bar, café, dram-shop, gin mill, grogshop, pub, public, public house, saloon, shebang, shebeen, tap, taproom). (various references)

Ukrainian

таверна, невеликий готель. (various references)

Vietnamese 

quán rượu cửa hàng ăn uống. (various references)

Welsh

tafarn (inn, pub, public-house). (various references)

e�-dam. (various references)

taberna, tabernis, tabernus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tavern": taverna, tavernas, taverner, taverners, taverns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tavern" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rayvern, savern, tabern, taern, tarver, taver, taveren, taverna, taverne, tavon, tavor, tavr, tavurn, Tervuren, Thavorn, tiern, Tolverne, torvean, toven, tover, toviere, traver, tuvan, tuviera, Tvesrp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: antre, avert, raven, trave.

-2 letters: ante, aver, earn, etna, nave, near, neat, rant, rate, rave, rent, tare, tarn, tear, tern, vane, vena, vent, vera, vert.

-3 letters: ane, ant, are, art, ate, ave, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, nae, net, ran, rat, ret, rev, tae, tan, tar, tav, tea, ten, van, var, vat, vet.

+1 letter: nervate, servant, taverna, taverns, varment, vaunter, ventral, verdant, versant, veteran.

+2 letters: antevert, averment, averting, bevatron, enervate, grievant, interval, levanter, navicert, overneat, relevant, renovate, revenant, servants, tavernas, taverner, tsarevna, tzarevna, varments, vaunters, venerate, ventrals, veratrin, versants, veterans, vintager.

+3 letters: adventure, advertent, adverting, anteverts, averments, avirulent, bevatrons, davenport, denervate, enervated, enervates, grievants, incurvate, innervate, intervale, intervals, invertase, levanters, narrative, navicerts, nervation, normative, observant, overeaten, overplant, overtaken, overtrain, prevalent, ravelment, renovated, renovates, renovator, revenants, revertant, taverners, tervalent, traveling, trivalent, tsarevnas, tzarevnas, venerated, venerates, venerator, ventrally, veratrine, veratrins, verdantly, vernation, vestryman, vintagers.