alehouse

noun

Definition of alehousenext
as in roadhouse

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Recent Examples of alehouse At the airport, a group of cadets loitered by a lactation pod, and people at the terminal alehouse seemed to be having a genuinely good time. — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026 Carrying news, satire and story into places where expensive books had seldom reached, they were sold for pennies, tacked to alehouse walls and sung aloud for the illiterate. — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025 On a video call Finger demonstrated a few use cases, including a woman sitting in a modern Los Angeles garage that became a woman riding a horse in an old Western town, or two men sitting at a backyard table who were suddenly in a Medieval alehouse. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025 The classic alehouse is a stone’s throw away from Leeds’ home ground, and on April 28, the fans were in a celebratory mood. — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 15 May 2025 This Livermore movie theater and alehouse will show the NFC championship in high-def on a 30-foot screen. — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024 The London Evening Post didn’t give her name, simply identifying her as the keeper of the Queen’s Head alehouse. — Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022 In the late seventies, the bar came under the ownership of the proprietor of a now defunct Bronx alehouse called the Liffy, like the river. — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alehouse
  1. roadhouse
  2. bistro
  3. nightclub
  4. pub
  5. brewpub
  6. tavern
  7. cabaret
  8. speakeasy
Noun
  • Texas native blends roadhouse rock, bluesy R&B and country-friend funky-tonk.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Hackney on Harms is actually the original Hackney’s, a tavern and roadhouse that opened after the end of Prohibition in the 1930s.
    — Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of roadhouse
Noun
  • The bistro will also have a full bar and wine menu, Fairman said.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Despite these grace notes, though, Faux is, on the main, a bistro of the species Crowdpleasing Bistro.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of bistro
Noun
  • Making a brief trip to his native Gotham before production of his next movie begins, Matt makes the mistake of succumbing to the advances of a gorgeous young woman on the dance floor of a nightclub.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Cesar Contreras remembers many nights waiting in line to get into Club Europe, a nightclub that opened in the aftermath of Atlanta playing host to the Centennial Olympics Games.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of nightclub
Noun
  • And the pub is having a Halloween party hosted by The Baddest.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Corti Brother’s is no hidden gem–it’s frequently written up in national food and travel pubs as one of the state’s best grocery stores.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of pub
Noun
  • Another brewpub wouldn’t open until the 1990s, with Micky Finns in Libertyville, Dretske said.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Tamara Wallace’s legal woes came to a head on the same day her successor, Cody Bass, was ordered to spend 10 days in a Douglas County, Nevada, jail for a harassment conviction stemming from an altercation at a brewpub.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of brewpub
Noun
  • The lore says the building operated as a brothel in its early years, with a tavern then as now on the ground floor.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • What to do nearby A stone’s throw away is the Water Street Market, a complex of shops that includes an antiques mall, the Grazery café, and a neighborhood tavern called Parish.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of tavern
Noun
  • And the theater where Penélope Cruz’s Nené performs cabaret for the Nationalist troops was a dilapidated cinema that had been closed since the 1950s.
    — Elaina Patton, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Use it for dry skin, dry lips, dry cuticles, scars from cabaret battles.
    — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of cabaret
Noun
  • Couples will find plenty to appeal—especially cocktails at the speakeasy 80 Proof, an elegant steak dinner at Steadfire, and evening stargazing with wine and charcuterie.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The backstory Everything started in Paris back in 2007 with the Experimental Cocktail Club, a speakeasy-style bar inspired by the craft cocktail revivals happening in New York City and London.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of speakeasy

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