tavern

IPA: tˈævɝn

(dated) A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and offering sleeping accommodations for travelers.
A restaurant or bar.
(Oxford University slang, obsolete) New Inn Hall, Oxford, one of the earliest medieval halls of the University of Oxford.

Examples of "tavern" in Sentences

The tavern was the social hub for the game.
The house was expanded to accommodate the tavern.
The Clover Hill Tavern was restored in 1954 by the Park.
Johnson called a tavern chair "the throne of human felicity."
He leaves the tavern to retrieve his prospectus for the magazine.
He begins to hallucinate, and the sleeping tavern clientele wake up.
The final scene in the tavern parodies the painting 'The Last Supper'.
From the outside the Tavern appears quite shabby and small almost humble.
A palisade was built around the tavern in anticipation of the War of 1812.
The tavern is long gone, but the legend and fun live on at Toad Suck Daze.
In its prime, the town boasted a millinery, a tavern, a shoe shop, and a bank.
The tavern was a smoky den of laughter and curses, rank with the smell of soured dreams.
The revamped tavern is now a visitors center for Central Park, where tourists can sign up for nature tours or visit a gift shop.
Mr. Martin writes that the tavern was the "18th century Internet," but I doubt that the brilliant repartee recorded by Boswell and others is to be found in cyberspace.
John Crockett moved still westward to this Holston valley, where he reared a pretty large log house on this forest road; and opened what he called a tavern for the entertainment of teamsters and other emigrants.