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pub
(pŭb)n.
A place of business serving beer or other alcoholic drinks and often basic meals.
[Short for public house.]
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pub
(pʌb)n
1. (Commerce) chiefly Formal name: public house Brit a building with a bar and one or more public rooms licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drink, often also providing light meals
2. (Brewing) chiefly Formal name: public house Brit a building with a bar and one or more public rooms licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drink, often also providing light meals
3. (Commerce) Austral and NZ a hotel
vb, pubs, pubbing or pubbed
(Brewing) (intr) informal to visit a pub or pubs (esp in the phrase go pubbing)
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pub
(pʌb)n.
a bar or tavern.
[1855–60; short for public house]
pub.
1. public.
2. publication.
3. published.
4. publisher.
5. publishing.
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pub
– bar1. 'pub'
In Britain, a pub is a building where people meet friends and have drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food.
John was in the pub last night and he bought me a drink.
In formal English, this can also be called a public house.
The Green Man is often seen as a name or sign on public houses.
2. 'bar'
In American English, a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks is usually called a bar.
After work they went to a bar downtown.
In British English, the word bar is sometimes used, especially to refer to a place serving alcoholic drinks that is part of a larger building, or in expressions such as wine bar and cocktail bar.
I'll meet you in the hotel bar in 20 minutes.
See bar
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pub
Past participle: pubbed
Gerund: pubbing
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| Noun | 1. |  pub - tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light mealsalehouse - a tavern where ale is sold bar, barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom - a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" free house - a public house that is not controlled by a brewery and so is free to sell different brands of beer and ale Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom |
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pub
public housenoun tavern, bar, inn, local (Brit. informal), saloon, watering hole (facetious slang), boozer (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. informal), roadhouse, hostelry (archaic or facetious), alehouse (archaic), taproom He was in the pub until closing time.
Quotations
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn" [Dr. Johnson]
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn" [Dr. Johnson]
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