tavern
A restaurant or bar.
Other meanings
A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and offering sleeping accommodations for travelers.
A kind of
- building
Kinds of tavern
- bucket shop
- gin mill
Related words
- klavern
- tavernesque
- tavernful
- taverning
- tavernize
- tavernkeep
- tavernkeeper
- tavernkeeping
- tavernless
- tavernlike
- tavernly
- tavernman
Word history
From Latin "taberna" (inn).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tavern” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.