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Tavern vs Inn - What's the difference?

tavern | inn |

As nouns the difference between tavern and inn

is that tavern is a building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks; an inn while inn is any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.

As a verb inn is

to house; to lodge.

As an initialism INN is

international Nonproprietary Name - the official non-proprietary or generic name given to a pharmaceutical substance, as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

tavern

English

(wikipedia tavern)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks; an inn.
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

    • Derived terms

    * tavernous

    Synonyms

    * See also

    inn

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia inn) (en noun)
  • Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
  • * Washington Irving
    • the miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn , after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • A tavern.
  • One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
    • the Inns''' of Court; the '''Inns''' of Chancery; Serjeants' '''Inns
  • (UK, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
    • Leicester Inn
  • (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
    • (Chaucer)
  • * Spenser
    • Therefore with me ye may take up your inn / For this same night.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * bed and breakfast * guesthouse * hostel * hotel * motel

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To house; to lodge.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) To take lodging; to lodge.
    • (Addison)

    Anagrams

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