bartender
pronunciation
How to pronounce bartender in British English:
UK [ˈbɑ:tendə(r)]
How to pronounce bartender in American English:
US [ˈbɑrtendə(r)]
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- Noun:
- an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar
Word Origin
- bartender (n.)
- also bar-tender; 1836, American English, from bar (n.2) + agent noun of tend (v.2).
Example
- 1. Learn to make one mixed cocktail like a pro bartender .
- 2. Each bartender has his or hers special recipe .
- 3. A mail-order bride she was she had told the bartender one year when she had drunk more than she should have .
- 4. You are a bartender . Your challenge is to tell what sort of drink each of a swelling mob of customers wants by the expressions on their faces .
- 5. I order a tea , and the fat bartender smiles his sly smile and asks whether I wanted any rum with it .