tavernous

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a tavern.

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Meanings

adjectivetavernous (comparative more tavernous, superlative most tavernous)

comparative more tavernous · superlative most tavernous

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tavern.

    My Cambridge Union was a low, ill-ventilated, ill-lit apartment at the back of the Red Lion Inn, cavernous, tavernous—something between a commercial room and a district branch meeting-house.

    1872, Joseph Irving, The annals of our time: a diurnal of events, social and political, home and foreign, from February 24, 1871, to the Jubilee, June 20, 1887

Origin

From tavern + -ous.

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APA

tavernous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tavernous

MLA

“tavernous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tavernous. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tavernous,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tavernous.

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