Synonyms for bar
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Saloon — A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public…
barroom US CA, liquor lounge, pub UK, tavern, lounge, tap-room, tap, public house UK, local UK, ale house, saloon dated UK US, boozer slang AU NZ, gin joint slang dated, gin mill dated, drinkery informal rare, rummery rare, groggery dated, ginshop informal dated
3. Barrier
barrier, road block, stumbling block, hindrance, obstacle, prevention, difficulty, obstruction, impediment
Definitions
- n. 1
A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
The street was lined with all-night bars.
- n. 2
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
The window was protected by steel bars.
- n. 3
A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
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Forms
- Plural
- bars → barrooms, pubs, taverns, lounges…
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A bar is something that is or may be firmly fixed, ordinarily with intent to prevent entrance or egress; as, the bars of a prison cell; the bars of a wood-lot. Barrier is used of objects more extensive than those to which bar is ordinarily applied.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- lounge Tom came into the lounge, carrying a cup of coffee.
- tavern Saddled horses waited for us in front of the tavern.
By length
- 3 letters
- key1, tap1, pub1, rod1
- 4 letters
- bank1, flat1, lock1, cake1, pole1
- 5 letters
- local2, jimmy2, lever2, shoal
- 6 letters
- streak1, lounge1, tavern2, stripe1, saloon2, boozer2
- 7 letters
- measure2, barrier3, barroom2, rummery, ginshop
- 8 letters
- obstacle3, drinkery, groggery
- 9 letters
- hindrance2
- 10 letters
- prevention3, difficulty4, impediment4
- 11 letters
- obstruction3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (local2 = 2 syllables).