Meanings
plural barrooms · alternative bar room
- CanadaUSA room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
1 more example
Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A VoidSynonyms: taproom
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian бар
- бар (bar)room serving alcoholic drinks
Esperanto trinkĉambro
- trinkĉambroroom serving alcoholic drinks
German Schankstube, Bar
- Schankstuberoom serving alcoholic drinks
- Barroom serving alcoholic drinks
- Schankraumroom serving alcoholic drinks
Scottish Gaelic seòmar-òil
- seòmar-òilroom serving alcoholic drinks
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with barroom
Cite this entry
barroom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barroom
“barroom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barroom. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “barroom,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barroom.
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