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pub  (pb)
n.
A place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold and drunk.

[Short for public house.]

pub [pʌb]
n
1. (Business / Commerce) (Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) Chiefly Brit a building with a bar and one or more public rooms licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drink, often also providing light meals Formal name public house
2. (Business / Commerce) Austral and NZ a hotel
vb pubs, pubbing, pubbed
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) (intr) Informal to visit a pub or pubs (esp in the phrase go pubbing)
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.pubpub - tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals
alehouse - a tavern where ale is sold
bar, barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom - a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar"
free house - a public house that is not controlled by a brewery and so is free to sell different brands of beer and ale
tap house, tavern - a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom

pub public house
noun tavern, bar, inn, local (Brit. informal), saloon, watering hole (facetious slang), boozer (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. informal), roadhouse, hostelry (archaic or facetious), alehouse (archaic), taproom He was in the pub until closing time.
Quotations
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn" [Dr. Johnson]
Translations
pub [pʌb] (Brit)
A. Npub m, bar m
B. CPD pub crawl N to go on a pub crawlir de chateo or de parranda(de bar en bar)

pub [ˈpʌb] npub m pub crawl, pub lunch, pub quiz
pub crawl n
to go on a pub crawl → faire la tournée des bars

pub
n (esp Brit) → Kneipe f (inf), → Wirtschaft f, → Lokal nt; (in the country) → Gasthaus nt, → Wirtshaus nt; let’s go to the pubkomm, wir gehen einen trinken or wir gehen in die Kneipe (inf); pub grub/lunch in Trinkgaststätten servierter Imbiss

pub [pʌb] n (Brit) → pub m inv
pub [pʌb] n (Brit) → pub m inv

pub [pab] public house
pub حانة hospoda pub Kneipe παμπ bar pubi pub pab pub パブ 술집 pub pub pub bar трактир pub บาร์ birahane quán rượu 酒馆


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We therefore decided that we would sleep out on fine nights; and hotel it, and inn it, and pub.
In England, the king is a perpetual magistrate; and it is a maxim which has obtained for the sake of the pub lic peace, that he is unaccountable for his administration, and his person sacred.
We sat in the parlor of Charley Roberts' pub in Apia, drinking long Abu Hameds compounded and shared with us by the aforesaid Charley Roberts, who claimed the recipe direct from Stevens, famous for having invented the Abu Hamed at a time when he was spurred on by Nile thirst--the Stevens who was responsible for "With Kitchener to Kartoun," and who passed out at the siege of Ladysmith.
 
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