public house

Questions about public house

What does public house mean?

public house means "tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals".

What is another word for public house?

Close synonyms include pub, saloon, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public house a common word?

public house is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.