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Tavern - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Tavern : (noun)
1: a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic
drinks [syn: tap house]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Tavern : \Tav"ern\, n. [OE. taverne, F. taverne, from L. taberna a
hut, booth, tavern. Cf. Table, Tabernacle.]
A public house where travelers and other transient guests are
accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel;
especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell
liquor in small quantities.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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TAVERN. A place of entertainment; a house kept up for the accommodation of
strangers.
2. These are regulated by various local laws. For the liabilities of
Tavern : keepers, Vide Story on Bailm. art. 7; 2 Kent, Com. 458; 12 Mod. 487;
Jones' Bailm. 94; 1 Bl. Com. 430; 1 Roll. Ab. 3, F; Bac. Ab. Inn, &c.; 1
Bouv. Inst. 1015, et seq.; and the articles Inn; Innkeeper.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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