tavern
pronunciation
How to pronounce tavern in British English:
UK [ˈtævən]
How to pronounce tavern in American English:
US [ˈtævərn]
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- Noun:
- a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks
Word Origin
- tavern
- tavern: [13] Tavern comes via Old French taverne from Latin taberna ‘hut, inn’, a word possibly of Etruscan origin. Derived from taberna, in the sense ‘hut’, was the diminutive form tabernāculum ‘tent’, which was borrowed into English as tabernacle [13]. Its original application was to the tent which according to the Bible covered the Ark of the Covenant.=> tabernacle
- tavern (n.)
- late 13c., "wine shop," later "public house" (mid-15c.), from Old French taverne (mid-13c.) "shed made of boards, booth, stall," also "tavern, inn," from Latin taberna "shop, inn, tavern," originally "hut, shed, rude dwelling," possibly [Klein] by dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs (genitive trabis) "beam, timber," from PIE *treb- "dwelling" (cognates: Lithuanian troba "a building," Old Welsh treb "house, dwelling," Welsh tref "a dwelling," Irish treb "residence," Old English ðorp "village, hamlet, farm, estate").
Example
- 1. The husbands fled their homes and congregated in the tavern .
- 2. People stroll around in black capes and the skeleton tavern provides the refreshments .
- 3. Jim reilly , the tavern 's greeter , sits on a stool outside the front door .
- 4. His parents died soon after , and schrank came to work for his uncle , a new york tavern owner and landlord .
- 5. A few days after the raid drake met binney and wiebe for lunch at a tavern in glenelg maryland .