bar·maid

(bär′mād′)

A woman who serves drinks in a bar.

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barmaid

(ˈbɑːˌmeɪd)

(Professions) a woman who serves in a pub

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bar•maid

(ˈbɑrˌmeɪd)

n.

a woman who bartends.

[1650–60]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

barmaid - a female bartender

barkeep, barkeeper, barman, bartender, mixologist - an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar

Translations

ساقِيَة في حَانَة

barmankabarman

barpigebartender

trinkejistino

tarjoilijatar

pipničarka

pincérnő

vínveitingamaîur/stúlka; baròjónn

barista

女性バーテンダー

여자 바텐더

barmeisje

bartender

barmanka

empregada de bar garçonete

барменша

barmanka

točajka

barflicka

หญิงเสิร์ฟเครื่องดื่มในบาร์

barmen kadın barmen

nữ phục vụ của quán rượu

酒吧女服务员

barmaid

[ˈbɑːmeɪd] N (esp Brit) → camarera f, moza f (LAm)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

barmaid

[ˈbɑː^rmeɪd] n → barmaid f, serveuse f (de bar)
She's a barmaid → Elle est barmaid.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

barmaid

[ˈbɑːˌmeɪd] n → barista f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bar

(baː) noun

1. a rod or oblong piece (especially of a solid substance). a gold bar; a bar of chocolate; iron bars on the windows.

2. a broad line or band. The blue material had bars of red running through it.

3. a bolt. a bar on the door.

4. a counter at which or across which articles of a particular kind are sold. a snack bar; Your whisky is on the bar.

5. a public house.

6. a measured division in music. Sing the first ten bars.

7. something which prevents (something). His carelessness is a bar to his promotion.

8. the rail at which the prisoner stands in court. The prisoner at the bar collapsed when he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.

verb – past tense, past participle barred –

1. to fasten with a bar. Bar the door.

2. to prevent from entering. He's been barred from the club.

3. to prevent (from doing something). My lack of money bars me from going on holiday.

preposition

except. All bar one of the family had measles.

ˈbarmaid, ˈbarman (-tendə) , (mainly American) ˈbartender noun

a person who serves at the bar of a public-house or hotel.

ˈbar code noun

a code in the form of parallel lines printed on goods from which the computer reads information about their price etc.

barmaid

→ ساقِيَة في حَانَة barmanka barpige Bardame σερβιτόρα σε μπαρ camarera tarjoilijatar serveuse pipničarka barista 女性バーテンダー 여자 바텐더 barmeisje bartender barmanka empregada de bar, garçonete барменша barflicka หญิงเสิร์ฟเครื่องดื่มในบาร์ kadın barmen nữ phục vụ của quán rượu 酒吧女服务员

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Just and self-reproving thoughts do not come to us too thickly, even in the purest air, and with the best lessons of heaven and earth; how should those white-winged delicate messengers make their way to Molly's poisoned chamber, inhabited by no higher memories than those of a barmaid's paradise of pink ribbons and gentlemen's jokes?

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The coffee-room customers, and the waiters, and the coachmen, and the helpers--not to mention a barmaid who was looking on from behind an open sash window--seemed at that moment, if a spectator might judge from their winks, nods, and muttered exclamations, strongly disposed to take part against the young gentleman in the stockings.

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Here a fresh-looking barmaid serves them each with a glass of early purl as they stand before the fire, coachman and guard exchanging business remarks.

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If you gently push the swing-door ajar and peer in you draw upon yourself the contemptuous looks of the barmaid, who at once puts you down in the same category with area sneaks and cadgers.

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Rapidly she approached the slovenly barmaid who stared half in envy, half in hate, at her more fortunate sister.

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This fellow is madly, insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a registry office?

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Crupp, 'that fell in love - with a barmaid - and had his waistcoats took in directly, though much swelled by drinking.'

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But now she knew that she was about to pass a group of gentlemen, who were standing at the door of the billiard-rooms, and she could not help seeing young Torry step out a little with his glass at his eye, and bow to her with that air of nonchalance which he might have bestowed on a friendly barmaid.

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The landlord said "No; they were full." The barmaid corrected him, and said "Number Ten was empty." A waiter was sent for to show the sailor to Number Ten.

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As for you, you have acted like a barmaid. So much the worse for you, for by such conduct you have lost my esteem and my patronage.

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The unaccustomed visitor from outside, naturally assumed everybody here to be prisoners--landlord, waiter, barmaid, potboy, and all.

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The barmaid had positively refused to draw him any more liquor; in return for which he had (merely in playfulness) drawn his bayonet, and wounded the girl in the shoulder.

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