Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tavern
IPA transcription: [t'ævɚn]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: tavern, tap_house
    Meaning: a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks
Usage examples
  • Not at the tavern, I hope?"
  • Do you remember the old tavern on the Rushville road?
  • And what do they talk about in that momentary halt in the tavern?
  • In this stinking tavern, for instance, here, they meet and sit down in a corner.
  • One day two wild-looking young men came out of a tavern close by the stand, and called Jerry.
  • 'Who knows?' cried Dame Ilse at last, 'the wretch may have been idling in some tavern since early morning.'
  • This happened to my patron, to be sold for a debt of a tavern wherein he had spent the greatest part of his money.
  • But before he reached the park, he went into a traktir (or tavern), and there he spent the whole night in revelry.
  • They've never met in their lives before and, when they go out of the tavern, they won't meet again for forty years.
  • He kept her under David Jones's hat shop in the "Buck" tavern yard, and his Indian friends kept their ponies there when they visited him.