Other forms: taverns
A tavern is an old-fashioned inn serving drink and food. The village tavern, a roadside tavern, drink at the tavern.
The word is now historical or American in ordinary use; in Britain the pub took over. Taverns once sold wine where alehouses sold ale, and the licences were separate. The Latin taberna meant a hut or shop, which is also behind tabernacle.
1nountavernAn old-fashioned inn serving drink and food.
“The travellers stopped at a tavern for a hot meal and a mug of ale.”
tavern is a drinking house.
Latin taberna means a hut or shop. Tabernacle comes from the same hut.
Proto-Indo-European
*treb-
Latin
taberna — inn
Old French
taverne — wine shop
Middle English
taverne
English, today
tavern
From Middle English taverne, from Old French taverne (“wine shop”), from Latin taberna (“inn”). a doublet of taberna and taverna.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA