Alehouse

Quick meaning: Alehouse is a noun meaning A business, such as an inn or tavern, where ale is sold.

Meaning

A business, such as an inn or tavern, where ale is sold.

Example Sentences

Find him in a pulpit but twiſe in the yeare, And Ile find him fortie times in the ale-houſe taſting ſtrong beare.

Mention has been already made more than once, of a certain Dragon who swung and creaked complainingly before the village ale-house door.

But go to—carry thy roisterers elsewhere—to the alehouse if they list, and there are crowns to pay your charges—make out the day’s madness without doing more mischief, and be wise men to-morrow—and hereafter learn to serve a good cause better than by acting like ruffians.

Word Forms

• alehouses
• ale-house

Synonyms for alehouse

Depending on context, synonyms include brewpub, pub, saloon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pub, keepers, change, alepole, drinkery, beerhouse.

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