tavern

Other forms of tavern

plural

taverns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tavern

What does tavern mean?

tavern means "a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks".

How many syllables are in tavern?

tavern has 2 syllables: tav-ern. The stress falls on "tav". In IPA it is /ˈtævɚn/.

What is another word for tavern?

Close synonyms include tap house. 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 tavern a common word?

tavern is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.