Entry Word: barroom

Function: noun

Meaning: a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises <her mother didn't like her even to walk past the barroom because she was worried that there might be drunk people inside>

Synonyms bar, café (also cafe), groggery, grogshop, pub, public house [chiefly British], saloon, tavern

Related Words cabaret, dive, joint, nightclub, roadhouse, speakeasy; package store