noun. A place of business that serves alcoholic beverages and often basic meals.

noun. An inn for travelers.

noun. A public house where wines and other liquors are sold, and where food is provided for travelers and other guests; a public house where both food and drink are supplied; an inn.

noun. Synonyms Inn, Tavern, Hotel, House. In the United States inn and tavern are rarely now popularly applied to places of public entertainment, except sometimes as quaint or affected terms; but in law tavern is sometimes used for any place of public entertainment where liquor is sold under license. Hotel is the general word, or, often, house as the name of a particular hotel.

noun. A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

noun. A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks; an inn.

noun. a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks

"John Crockett moved still westward to this Holston valley, where he reared a pretty large log house on this forest road; and opened what he called a tavern for the entertainment of teamsters and other emigrants."

to hunt a tavern fox  

tavernous  

building  edifice  

beer garden  bucket shop  gin mill  pothouse  pub  

cavern  

apartment  bar  barn  cafe  chapel  

alehouse  amusement park  automat  ballroom  bar