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taverns

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Public houses or inns providing drink, food, and lodging; traditional settings in narrative poetry for storytelling and revelry.

Detailed Definition
A tavern is a place where travelers could eat, drink, and sometimes stay the night. In older or literary settings, taverns often suggest the road, travel, and rough everyday life.
Example
Example in poetry:
“By inns and taverns, through fields of gold” places taverns along a traveler’s route; Shakespeare’s taverns, especially the Boar’s Head, are lively spaces of comedy and social mixing; “The taverns emptied laughter into the London rain” makes the noun part of a city soundscape; “In roadside taverns, old songs outlasted empires” gives the setting historical resonance.
Additional Notes
The word is common in historical or literary settings but less familiar in everyday modern use than ordinary words.; Found in the poem, The Ballad of Don Quixote by Richard
Also Known As
Inns Taverns of Yore Public Houses dram-shops
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