tavern

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English taverne, from Old French taverne (“wine shop”), from Latin taberna (“inn”). Doublet of taberna and taverna.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtævən/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtævɚn/
  • Rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)n
  • Hyphenation: tav‧ern

Noun[edit]

tavern (plural taverns)

  1. (dated) A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and offering sleeping accommodations for travelers.
    Synonyms: inn; see also Thesaurus:pub
    • 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:
      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."
    • 1892, Walter Besant, “The Select Circle”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 46:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening the parlor of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for the select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
      At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.
  2. A restaurant or bar.

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Noun[edit]

tavern

  1. Alternative form of taverne
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