as in tavern
a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises a barroom long popular with working folks looking for a place to unwind at the end of the day

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Recent Examples of barroom With love and loss, inspiration and indignation, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) is a folk tale, a small-town barroom yarn, a gothic novel, and a ghost story. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025 To be fair, the singer-songwriter doesn’t actually think of it as a song about a barroom pickup. Tom Roland, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2025 The details: The new building is set to relocate the existing O'Brien's Pub, the 75-person barroom venue that absorbed some of the Allston rock scene when the original Great Scott closed in 2020. Mike Deehan, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025 World & Nation Profile : Le Pen: Dark Side of the French Soul : Crude, powerful and dangerous, the onetime barroom brawler with the mesmerizing oratory has built a career on hatred. Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for barroom
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Noun
  • The regular inspections include restaurants, taverns, grocery stores, meat markets and bakeries.
    Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Be sure to keep an eye out as the windmill atop the tavern is engulfed in flames several times an hour.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Dear Eric: My favorite local pub has wonderful food except for the fries.
    R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The singer then explained the sentimental reasoning behind the pub's name, Lancaster Lock.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The hotel’s adobe-style buildings are interconnected, with paths weaving between the rooms, a moody saloon, and the breezy restaurant.
    Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2025
  • By 1885 the new settlement’s population soared to more than 2,000, and hotels, restaurants, blacksmiths, saloons, shops and more lined both sides of Main Street, Second and Third Avenues.
    Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the trendy neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, cafes and clothing stores bustled as usual.
    Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In 2023, Bachelier opened a cafe and test kitchen space along Highway 101 in Leucadia that somewhat accidentally became a blockbuster restaurant, though its immediate success was slightly improbable but not at all surprising given the collective talent.
    Candice Woo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The judge sentenced the former G-Unit rapper to 30 days behind bars.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
  • It’s been just over eight months since the Jamaican dancehall legend was freed from captivity after serving 13 years behind bars for a murder conviction that was overturned on appeal in March 2024.
    Rob Kenner, VIBE.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Oh, and Charlotte finds her way back to a nightclub and hopefully some Long Island iced teas.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Based on the 2001 film by Baz Luhrmann, the jukebox musical takes its name from a famous French nightclub — founded in the 19th century and still open today — and follows a fictional romance between cabaret performer Satine and bohemian songwriter Christian.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025

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“Barroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barroom. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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