Definition of Tavern

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Definition of Tavern
	Tavern 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. Related Definitions: An, And, Are, Especially, Hotel, House, In, Inn, Licensed, Liquor, Modern, Other, Public, Quantities, Sell, Small, Times, To, Transient, Where, With

Tavern Quotations

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Mikhail Bakunin

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
Gwendolyn Brooks

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
Henry Mayhew

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Norman Douglas

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
Edward Moore

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
Georg Trakl

Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts.
Samuel G. Engel

Tavern Translations

tavern in Dutch is herberg, uitspanning
tavern in French is taverne
tavern in German is Gasthaus, Kneipe
tavern in Spanish is taberna

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