speakeasy

noun

Definition of speakeasynext
as in cabaret

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Recent Examples of speakeasy Rounding out the culinary offerings are an evening lounge that channels a speakeasy and poolside dining overlooking Dallas’s skyline. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026 In it, Tomlin takes viewers through a virtual metropolis complete with high-rise apartments, a speakeasy, an aquarium, and a baseball stadium. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026 Ask your server to secure you a seat after dinner in the adjacent speakeasy, Bobo. — John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 The facade is part of Williams & Graham, an airport outpost of the Denver speakeasy known for hiding its original bar behind a bookcase. — Bailey Berg, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for speakeasy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speakeasy
  1. cabaret
  2. nightclub
  3. roadhouse
  4. bistro
  5. alehouse
  6. saloon
  7. brewpub
  8. pub
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of alehouse
Noun
  • At its birth in 1907 in the basement of a Seattle saloon, there was nothing promising about the American Messenger Company.
    — Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The 18-year-old female elephant got loose from her handler outside her enclosure, then went on the run, demolishing the door of a saloon on North Avenue, smashing in the window of another and walking through the fence around a vacant lot.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of saloon
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
  • 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

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“Speakeasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speakeasy. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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