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Definition: Pub |
PubNoun1. (British) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pub" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | PUB 1. PUBlishing. A 1972 text-formatting language for TOPS-10, with syntax based on SAIL. Influenced TeX and Scribe. ["PUB: The Document Compiler", Larry Tesler, Stanford AI Proj Op Note, Sept 1972]. 2. /pub, the top-level, publicly accessible directory on most anonymous FTP archives. This is usually where the interesting files are. See pubic directory. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Multilingual Slang | Hungarian (cseho', kricsmi). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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- Pub rock (Australia)
- Pub rock (UK)
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A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in Britain, Ireland, Australia and other countries.
Overview
Public houses are culturally, socially and traditionally different from other places found elsewhere in the world such as cafés, bars, bierkellers and brewpubs. Colloquialisms for the public house include boozer, the local and rub-a-dub-dub (see Cockney Rhyming Slang).
An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of south west England.
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The Church House Inn in Stoke Gabriel
(near Brixham), Devon, England.
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Pubs are social places for the sale and consumption of mainly alcoholic beverages, and most public houses offer a wide range of beers, wines, and spirits. Beer served in a pub can range from from pressurised "keg" beer, to "cask" beer brewed in the time-honoured fashion in wooden barrels or casks. The beer lends most pubs a pleasant, memorable aroma. Often the windows of the pub are of smoked or frosted glass so that the clientele are obscured from the street.
The owner or manager (licensee) of a public house is known as the publican, but is often referred to as "guv" (short for guv'nor, or govenor). Each pub generally has a crowd of regulars, people who drink there on a regular basis. The pub people visit most often is called their local. In many cases, this will be the pub nearest to their home, but some people choose their local for other reasons: proximity to work, a traditional venue for their friends, the availability of real ale, or maybe just a pool table.
Pub games and sports
A number of traditional games were often played in pubs including darts, shove ha'penny, billiards, and in some areas, Nine Mens Morris and skittles. In recent years the game of pool has made itself felt in British pub culture. Increasingly, video games are provided. Many pubs also hold special events, from tournaments of the aforementioned games to karaoke nights to pub quizzes. However many now play pop music, or show football on big screen televisions.
See also
- Darts
- Skittles
- Bar billiards
- Pool
- Cribbage
- Dominoes
- Bat and trap
- Pub cricket
Pub food
Pubs in Britain were primarily drinking establishments and little emphasis was placed on the serving of food. The usual fare consisted of specialised English snack food such as pork scratchings along with crisps and peanuts. If a pub served meals they were usually fairly basic dishes such as a ploughman's lunch. Food has now become much more important as part of a pub's trade and today most pubs serve lunches and dinners (colloquially this is known as pub grub) in addition to the normal snacks consumed at the bar. Many pubs serve excellent meals which rival the best restaurants and going for a 'pub lunch' can be a real treat. Certain pubs with a focus on high-quality food have come to be known as gastropubs.
Pub names
Pubs often have traditional names. Here is a list of categories:
- reflecting local trades: The Mason's Arms, The Foresters
- local sporting activities: The Cricketers, The Fox and Hounds
- a noted individual: The Marquis of Granby, The Lord Nelson
- an historic event: The Trafalgar, The Royal Oak
- alluding amusingly to everyday phrases: The Nowhere Inn Particular
- with a royal or aristocratic association: The King's Head, The Queen Victoria, The Duke of Cambridge
- with the names of two objects which may or may not be complementary: The George and Dragon, The Goat and Compasses, The Rose and Crown
- with names of tools or productss of trades: The Harrow, The Propeller, The Wheatsheaf
- with names of items that may be part of a coat of arms: The Red Lion, The Unicorn, The White Bear
Pub signs
British pubs often have highly decorated hanging signs over their doors. These signs bear the name of the pub, both in words and in pictorial representation. If the pub's name refers to real objects or animals, then the picture will usually be a straightforward one; if the pub is named after a person of nobility, then the sign will often bear that person's coat of arms. In the past, the pictures were more useful than the words for identifying the pub, as many of the patrons were illiterate, and names may have been chosen based on what the picture would look like. Some pub signs are in the form of a pictorial pun or rebus.
Pub chains
In recent years a number of pub chains have sprung up which use semi-traditional sounding names (The Rat and Parrot, The Slug and Lettuce, The ... and Firkin) for all of the pubs in the chain. Newly acquired pubs are renamed and many people resent the loss of traditional names. These pubs are often owned by brewing companies and their beer selection is mainly limited to beers from that particular company. However; by law, pubs must offer at least one alternative beer (known as a guest beer) from another brewery and that beer must be a cask conditioned real ale.
CAMRA
The society which has a particular interest in the traditional British beers and the preservation of the integrity of public houses is CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. CAMRA were instrumental in lobbying for the guest beer law.
In 1998 there were 68,000 pubs in the United Kingdom (53,200 in England and Wales, 5,200 in Scotland and 1,600 in Northern Ireland). Perhaps more significant is the overall trend reflected in two other statistics: while the number of licences is up from around 75,000 in the mid-1970s to over 85,000 in 2002, the number of barrels of beer sold at pubs (and bars) has dropped from over 36 million to less than 24 million during the same period. These statistics reflect the trend in the UK away from drinking at the local pub. (Source: BBPA Statistical Handbook).
Notable British public houses
(website includes information on Portesham and the Jurassic Coast as well as being a traditional English pub in Dorset)
- The Prospect of Whitby in London
- The Olde Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London (formerly a favourite haunt of journalists)
- Dirty Dick's in Bishopsgate, London (an historic London pub)
- The Dolphin in Plymouth
- The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (Britain's smallest pub, according to the Guinness Book of Records)
- Royal Oak, Meavy, Devon
- The Eagle and Child in Oxford (frequented by ''The Inklings (a writing circle that included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis))
- The Kings Arms in Portesham, Dorset http://www.kingsarms-dorset.com
The Blue Bell in York The Eagle in Cambridge The Trip To Jerusalem in Nottingham (incorporates a cave and claims to be the oldest pub in the UK)
Pubs in British Popular Culture
All the major soap operas on British television feature a pub as their focal point, with their 'pub' becoming a household name. The Rovers Return is the world famous pub on Coronation Street, the top British 'soap' broadcast on ITV. The Queen Vic (short for the Queen Victoria) is the pub on EastEnders, the major 'soap' on BBC1, while the Woolpack is the pub and central meeting point on Emmerdale. The sets of each of the three major soap operas have been visited by major royalty, including Queen Elizabeth II. The centrepiece of each visit was a trip into the Rovers, the Vic or the Woolpack to be offered a drink.
Ex alcoholic US president George W. Bush famously fulfilled his ambition of visiting a 'genuine English pub' during his November 2003 State Visit to the UK when he shared lunch and a pint of non-alcoholic lager with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in Sedgefield, County Durham. This was rather an expensive pub outing however, with security costs for the event estimated to have been in excess of £1 million [1]. Bush is also reported to have left the pub without paying, an act which is considered a serious pub culture social faux pas.
Pub Music
While many pubs now play piped pop music, the Pub has historically been a popular venue for live song. See:
The pub has also been celebrated in popular British culture, including songs such as "Hurry Up Harry" by the 1970s punk rock act Sham 69, the chorus of which was the chant "We're going down the pub" repeated several times. Another such song is "Two Pints Of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please!" by UK punk band Splodgenessabounds.
- Pub songs
- Pub rock
Theme pubs
Pubs that aim to cater for a niche audience, such as sports fans or star trek fans or people of certain nationalities are known as theme pubs. Examples of theme pubs include sports bars, rock pubs, biker pubs and Irish pubs (see below).
Irish public houses
Superficially there is little difference between an Irish pub and its English counterpart. However, closer scrutiny will reveal some differences. There seems to be more live music in an Irish pub, some of which are known in the Irish language as Ceilí Houses, and a customer is more likely to entertain the assembly with a song. The atmosphere in such places is called craic, (pronounced crack) and is the Irish language word for fun. In Ireland pubs usually bear the name of the current or a previous owner. e.g. Murphy's or O'Connor's Bar. Famous bars in Dublin include O'Donoghue's, an Irish music bar in Merrion Street frequently by American tourists, Doheny and Nesbits, where politicians, journalists and writers drink together, the Horse Shoe Bar in the Shelbourne Hotel, where journalists like Eamon Dunphy are regular drinkers, and The George, Dublin's largest gay bar. Individual pubs are also associated with famous Irish writers and poets such as Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan and James Joyce.
'Irish Bars' have been opened throughout the world, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, from New York to Frankfurt, Johannesburg to Beijing. The main drinks consumed in Irish pubs include ales like Guinness, Smithwicks and Kilkenny, lagers such as Budweiser, Heineken, Carlsburg and Harp and other spirits like whiskey and Baileys. Alcopops are also becoming popular with the youth market, many of whom no longer drink ales such as Guinness. Non-alcoholic drinks are also available.
Compare with: tavern, inn, bar, cafe, coffeehouse
See also: pub crawl, drunkenness, alcoholism, hangover
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Public house."
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Publishing is the activity of distributing books, magazines, newspapers and other printed material, or information, to the public. For example "internet publishing" is making information available via the Internet.
See also:
- desktop publishing
- self-publishing
- mass media
- academic publishing
- publisher
- word processing
- writing
- Open-access publishing
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Publishing."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
pub | English | Public house | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PubSynonyms: gin mill (n), pothouse (n), public house (n), saloon (n), taphouse (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pub |
| English words defined with "pub": bar hop ♦ pub-crawl ♦ tight. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pub" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (advertising, pub, public house, publicity), Italian (pub), Portuguese (pub), Serbo-Croatian (jack), Spanish (pub, public house), Swedish (hotel, house, pub, tavern). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | To see if there's a pub! (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) I'm the new bartender over at the pub. Got my lighter, my rag, my empathy face (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) The pub closes in five hours (Black Books; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews) Oh, I haven't been to bed. Me and Mike met up with these two Scottish guys in the pub and they gave us all this cheap speed (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Poet's Pub (1949) World of Pub (2000) Culture Pub (1987) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Good For A Cold. / Lith. & Pub. By Currier & Ives. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | A Sudden Call, : or one of the Corporation, Summoned from his favorite Amusement. / Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The grand "Washington Monument" procession. As it appeared on Hamilton Square during the ceremony of laying the corner stone, Oct. 19th, 1847 / on stone from a drawing taken on the spot by J.L. Magee ; lith. & pub. by J. Baillie. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The young housekeepers, a year after marriage / lith. & pub. by N. Currier. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Genl. Taylor, at the Battle of Buena Vista / lith. & pub. by Sarony & Major, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Genl. Ampudia treating for the capitulation of Monterey [sic], with Genl. Taylor, 24th Sept. 1846 / lith. & pub. by Sarony & Major, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Popping the question / lith. & pub. by Sarony & Major. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Military College of Chapultepec, the ancient site of the halls of the Montezumas / lith. & pub. by N. Currier, from a sketch by Gualdi, and forwarded by Lieut. Larkin Smith, U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The flag that has waved one hundred years--A scene on the morning of the fourth day of July 1876 / Fabronius ; E.P. & L. Restein's oilchromo, Phila. ; National Chromo Co. pub., Phila. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The marriage / lith. & pub. by Sarony & Major. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Gareth in the PUB" by Victor Silkin Commentary: "Another drinking session in Melbourne Australia." | "Hattrick's Pub" by raznov Commentary: "Please excuse the traffic cones. I thought this was interesting for the fact that this about the only freestanding brick building over 2 stories that you'll find in downtown Tampa. The facade, to me, also conveys a warm "neighborhood pub" type of feel." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | However, the PUB was reconstituted in 1995 to take on its new role as the regulator for the electricity and piped gas industries. (references) | |
The PUB regulated the electricity and gas industries in Singapore until 1995. The PUB was responsible for the generation, transmission and supply of electricity to consumers. (references) | ||
For example, the PUB has an on-going program to promote electricity efficiency, and the IACEE released a report in May 2000 on recommendations to improve energy efficiency in Singapore. (references) | ||
Travel | Ghana | Great Irish Pub and very popular with Ghanaians and expats alike. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cyprus | In September 1999, the Chief of Migration Department in the government-controlled area was arrested for illegally issuing visas to female nightclub workers and pub owners; he was convicted during the year and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pub" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.87% of the time. "Pub" is used about 3,817 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.87% | 3,812 | 2,560 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.08% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,817 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Ambishus Pub Co. Ltd. Plc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pub": go on a pub crawl ♦ pub crawl ♦ pub crawler. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pub": pub-crawl, pub-crawled, pub-crawling, pub-fare, pub-goer, pub-goers, pub-going, pub-grub, pub-owners, pub-owning, pub-rockers, pub-singing, pub-spy-cum-physician, pub-talk, pub-theatre, pub-turned-hotel, pub-type. | |
Ending with "pub": back-room-in-a-pub, bloke-in-the-pub, brew-pub, in-pub, inter-pub, man-in-a-pub, post-pub, theme-pub. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pub med | 11,229 | dublin pub | 49 |
pub | 1,043 | abbey pub | 49 |
entrez pub med | 435 | pub sign | 47 |
pub table | 300 | ncbi pub med | 47 |
af pub | 267 | edinburgh pub scotland | 46 |
irish pub | 188 | pub for sale | 46 |
air force pub | 135 | irs irs.gov n1036.pdf pdf pub | 45 |
medline pub med | 130 | company pub quiz | 44 |
brew pub | 112 | 50 da in penny pub | 41 |
pub quiz | 111 | chunkys cinema pub | 40 |
file pub | 91 | davids poor pub | 40 |
london pub | 89 | pub bar | 35 |
joes pub | 81 | the grape street pub | 35 |
da in pub | 58 | picadilly pub | 34 |
english pub | 58 | cinema pub | 33 |
anti pub | 57 | de musique pub | 32 |
in pub scotland | 53 | air force form pub | 31 |
pub sherlocks | 52 | pub med search | 31 |
pink pony pub | 51 | abbey chicago pub | 30 |
army pub | 49 | the village pub | 30 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pub"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | drinkpan (bar). (various references) | |
Albanian | pijetore (boozer, grogshop, hotel, pothouse, watering place), birrari (alehouse, beerhouse, gin mill, gin-shop, hotel, mug-house, saloon, tap house, taproom), bar (bar, brasserie, cure, drug, gin mill, grass, herb, herbage, local, medicament, medicine, pasturage, pasture, physic, saloon). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشرب (bar), حانة (bar, barroom, bush, cabaret, inn, saloon, tavern), خمارة (saloon, tavern). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кръчма (alehouse, bodega, boozer, cabaret, cantiniere, gin mill, gin-shop, grog-shop, house, inn, public, public house, saloon, tavern, wine vault, wineshop), пивница (alehouse, cantina, dram-shop, drinking place, porterhouse, public house, saloon, wineshop). (various references) | |
Catalan | taverna (bar). (various references) | |
Chinese | 酒店 (wine shop), 出版物 (Publication). (various references) | |
Czech | krèma (boozer, dive, tavern), hostinec (guesthouse, inn, ordinary, public house), hospoda (saloon). (various references) | |
Dutch | kroeg (bar), café (bar, café, cafe, coffee-house), bar (awfully, bar, barren, barrier, buffet, severe, strict). (various references) | |
Esperanto | trinkejo (bar), drinkejo (bar). (various references) | |
Faeroese | leskingarstað (bar), drykkjustova (bar, inn, tavern), drekkistað (bar). (various references) | |
Finnish | kapakka (restaurant, saloon). (various references) | |
French | pub (public house, publicity), estaminet, bistrot, abreuvoir. (various references) | |
German | Kneipe (bar, barrel house, boozer, café, joint, saloon, tavern). (various references) | |
Greek | καπηλειό (grogshop, pothouse, public house, tavern), μπαρ (bar, public house, tavern), παμπ (tavern). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסבאה (alehouse, bar, brasserie, public house, saloon, taproom, tavern), פאב (public house), בית מרזח (saloon, tavern). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vendéglõ (inn, porter house, public house, restaurant), sörözô (bar), söntés (bar, saloon, tap, tap house, taproom), kocsma (alehouse, boozer, dram-shop, grocery, jerry, jerry shop, jerry-shop, pot house, public house, saloon, shades, tavern), italbolt (bar, saloon), csapszék (bodega, grog-shop, jerry, jerry-shop, joint, juice joint, shanty), büfé (bar, buffet, cafeteria, canteen, diner, refreshment room, snack bar), bár (although, as, bar, bistro, gin mill, grocery, shebang, though, whilst). (various references) | |
Italian | bar (bar, buffet, café, cafe, saloon, snack bar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 酒家 (heavy drinker, liquor store, wine shop), パノラマ写真 (palladium, panoramic photograph, Papa, papaya, paprika, papyrus, parachute, parachute skirt, paradigm, paradigm shift, paradise, paraglider, paragraph, parapsychology, paraquat, parasail, parasite single, parasol, Parathion, paratyphus, parfait, pavilion, Pavlov, performance, perfume, perfumer, public, public acceptance, public corporation, public course, public domain, public house, public opinion, public relations, public school, public servant, public space, publicity, puff, puff sleeve, puppy), 居酒屋 (bar, tavern). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パブリックハウス (public house), パブ , しゅか (employer's house, heavy drinker, liquor store, wine shop), いざかや (bar, tavern). (various references) | |
Korean | 간행물 (Publication). (various references) | |
Manx | thie oast (boozer, dram shop, hotel, inn, licensed house, public house, saloon, tavern), thie lhionney (ale house, beer house, boozer, pot house). (various references) | |
Papiamen | shap (bar). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | publicação (appearance, edition, magazine, production, publication, review), pub, espécie de bar (pothouse), cervejaria (alehouse, beerhouse, brewery, brewing house, gin-mill, pothouse, public house), casa de vinhos (pothouse, public house), botequim (bar, café, coffee house, snack bar, tavern), barzinho (bar, little bar), bar (bar, barroom, dram-shop, public house, saloon, shebang, tap-house). (various references) | |
Romanian | tavernã (ordinary, tavern), han (hostel, hostelry, inn, Khan), cârciumã (ale-house, bar, crib, drinking house, gin-shop, grogshop, ordinary, peg house, porter house, pot house, public house, saloon, taproom, tavern), bodegã (peg house, porter house, tap house, tavern, wine vault), bar (bar, gin palace, night club). (various references) | |
Russian | кабак (barrel house, barrel shop, joint, nightclub, pot-house, public house, shebeen, tavern). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pab, kafana (barroom, coffee palace, coffee room, tavern). (various references) | |
Spanish | taberna (bar, inn, local, public house, saloon, taproom, tavern, taverna). (various references) | |
Swahili | baa (bar). (various references) | |
Swedish | värdshus (hostel, inn, public house, public-house, tavern), krog (cabaret, dive, public house, public-house, saloon, tavern). (various references) | |
Turkish | bar (ale-house, bar, café, dram-shop, gin mill, grogshop, public, public house, saloon, shebang, shebeen, tap, taproom, tavern). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трактир, шинок (ale-house, cabaret, saloon), гласність (daylight), бар (bar, bar-room, cellaret, tap-room), пивниця (ale-house, beerhouse, boozer, cellar, doggery, shanty, tap, tap-room). (various references) | |
Welsh | tafarn (inn, public-house, tavern). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pub": puberal, pubertal, puberties, puberty, puberulent, pubes, pubescence, pubescences, pubescent, pubic, pubis, public, publically, publican, publicans, publication, publications, publicise, publicised, publicises, publicising, publicist, publicists, publicities, publicity, publicize, publicized, publicizes, publicizing, publicly, publicness, publicnesses, publics, publish, publishable, published, publisher, publishers, publishes, publishing, publishings, pubs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pub": brewpub. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pub": brewpubs, copublish, copublished, copublisher, copublishers, copublishes, copublishing, micropublisher, micropublishers, micropublishing, micropublishings, nonpublic, postpuberty, postpubescent, postpubescents, prepuberal, prepubertal, prepuberties, prepuberty, prepubescence, prepubescences, prepubescent, prepubescents, prepublication, prepublications, republic, republican, republicanism, republicanisms, republicanize, republicanized, republicanizes, republicanizing, republicans, republication, republications, republics, republish, republished, republisher, republishers, republishes, republishing, semipublic, subpubic, underpublicized, unpublicized, unpublishable, unpublished. (additional references) | |
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"Pub" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eub, Oubc, pab, pabr, Pagb, pbl, pbn, Pbo, pbu, pbx, pcb, pcu, pdu, Peb, pebr, Pfui, phb, Phurba, Phurbu, pib, pibb, pibr, piby, piub, pku, plurb, Pobl, pobo, pobr, poob, psb, pu, pua, Puba, pube, Pubi, pubn, pubo, pubr, puc, pue, puf, puh, pui, puj, puk, Pulbo, pum, puq, purb, puuk, puw, pux, puz, Pvba, pwb, pyb, Pybba, pybt, Upb, zub. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pub" (pronounced pu"b) |
| 2 | -u" b | bub, club, cub, drub, dub, grub, hub, nub, rub, scrub, shrub, snub, stub, sub, tub. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-p-u" | |
-1 letter: up. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-p-u" | |
+1 letter: bump, burp, pubs, upby. | |
+2 letters: bumph, bumps, bumpy, burps, plumb, pubes, pubic, pubis, upbow, upbye. | |
+3 letters: abrupt, backup, blowup, bumped, bumper, bumphs, buppie, burlap, burped, hubcap, pablum, plumbs, public, pueblo, subpar, superb, upbear, upbeat, upbind, upboil, upbore, upbows. | |
+4 letters: backups, bethump, blowups, bluecap, breakup, brewpub, brushup, buildup, bullpen, bumpers, bumpier, bumpily, bumping, bumpkin, buppies, burlaps, burping, bushpig, dupable, ephebus, hubcaps, pablums, pabular, pabulum, paystub, perturb, phoebus, plumbed, plumber, plumbic, plumbum, puberal, puberty, publics, publish, pueblos, replumb, subpart, subpena, subplot, subtype, upbears, upbeats, upbinds, upboils, upborne, upbound, upbraid, upbuild, upbuilt, upclimb. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Abbreviations 16. Acronyms | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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