Meanings
plural beerhouses · alternative beer-house · alternative beer house
- A tavern or restaurant in which the primary drink served is beer.
Near-synonyms: (broadly synonymous) alehouse, beer parlour, beer bar, pub, saloon; (overlapping) brewpub
Synonyms: alehouse, beer parlour, beer bar, pub, saloon, brewpub
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA tavern or restaurant in which the primary drink served is beer.
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*beuʀahūs“beerhouse”
- Old English*bēorhūs
- Middle Englishbeerhouse
- Englishbeerhouse
From Middle English beerhouse, from Old English *bēorhūs, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀahūs (“beerhouse”), equivalent to beer + house.
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
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