Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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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.