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Barmen vs Carmen - What's the difference?

barmen | carmen |

As nouns the difference between barmen and carmen

is that barmen is irregular plural of barman while carmen is plural of carman.

As a proper noun Carmen is

{{given name|female|from=Spanish}} borrowed from Spanish in the nineteenth century.

barmen

English

Noun

(head)
  • (barman)
    • ----

    barman

    English

    Noun

    (barmen)
  • A man who works in a bar.
  • * 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
    • NOT so long ago there was a beer commercial on British TV in which two pointy-headed aliens order a pint in a rural pub. “Up from London, are we?” the barman asks politely.

    Synonyms

    * barkeep * bartender

    See also

    * barmaid ----

    carmen

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • borrowed from Spanish in the nineteenth century.
  • , an Anglicization of (etyl) Carmine.
  • A town in Oklahoma.
  • An unincorporated community in Idaho.

    • Quotations

    * 1914 Keith Clark, The Spell of Spain , The Page Company 1914, page 223: *: Not all of them looked "Spanish", but, no doubt, all of them were Spanish, even the blue-eyed, white, sylph-like creature, dressed in pale blue and white, who looked much more like a Murillo Madonna than like Carmen', but who danced like a ' Carmen , with a lithe, luring body entirely without stays, - - - * 1988 (Elmore Leonard), Killshot , Arbor House 1989, ISBN 1557100411, page 145: *: "But your Mom won," Carmen said, "and named you after a movie star. Moms get away with murder. Mine, you probably think, named me after the girl in the opera." *: "Tell you the truth," Wayne said, "I never thought about it." *: "She didn't. She named me after Guy Lombardo's brother, Carmen Lombardo, he sang with the band. - - ----