1. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
   "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the barroom";
   - bar, saloon, ginmill [N. Amer, informal], taproom, cantina, saloon bar [Brit], lounge bar [Brit]

Derived forms: barrooms

Type of: room

Part of: boozer [Brit, informal], gin mill [N. Amer, informal], groggery [US, archaic], inn [Brit], pothouse [archaic], pub [Brit, Cdn], public house [Brit], saloon [Brit], tap house [archaic], taphouse [archaic], tavern, watering hole [informal]

Encyclopedia: Barroom