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/ˈbɑːˌtɛndə(ɹ)/ · noun
One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar. [from 19th c.].
He observed as the sad bartender ritually played canasta with two bored and customerless dancers...
They weren't all just sexpats and drifters and former disgraced officers or old bartenders, none of which he should have mentioned.
Use bartender when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bartender means One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar. [from 19th c.].
Common synonyms include barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist, barman.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He observed as the sad bartender ritually played canasta with two bored and customerless dancers...
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