Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A place where ale is sold and served.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A house where ale is retailed.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tavern where ale is sold
Etymologies
- ale + house. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For these commentators, the alehouse was a threat to public order, a hotbed of promiscuity, and a corrupter of conventional family life.”
“The alehouse is the terrible bane of the labourer.”
“An "alehouse" is, however, alluded to in a ballad on the burning of the old Globe in 1613.”
“You can imagine him propping up the bar at a 16th-century tavern, his jokes the sort "to make fools laugh in the alehouse".”
“There is the land of course, with its leisurely rhythm and the cottages that seem to grow up out of the earth; the old alehouse, the Helyar Arms which, I discovered, and contrary to popular stories about English cooking, can give you a wonderful lunch.”
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“He orders that brigands and criminals be brought to justice and that the casual violence of the alehouse and the highway be controlled.”
“Every night we have to go to a village, an alehouse, or an abbey and find someone who can guide us for the next day.”
“The inn is nothing more than a village alehouse with two rooms for passing travelers.”
“But no, two beaches for the price of one – a buxom-kiss-me-quick-seasidey-prom one, and an alehouse-fishermen's-wharf one round the rear, cupping an estuary that darts with boats 24/7.”
“The oarmen were impressed with the unpretentious alehouse, which quickly gained popularity among the Yale set.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alehouse’.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
abaculus, abacus, abaft, abarticular, abbreviate, abeyance, abiding, anthocyanin, antemeridian, arcane, adjure, adduce and 418 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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The Old English Influence
Modern English words impacted by and descended from Old English.
a, aback, abaft, abide, about, above, abode, accursed, accurst, ache, acknowledge, acorn and 109 more...
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18th century british
from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal ...
intimacy, piety, partiality, sentimental, plasters, mawkish, drab, spurious, sententious, bitters, folly, virtue and 132 more...
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Words I See Primarily in Books About ...
furze, peat, turnips, Michaelmas, Candlemas, hunter's moon, harvest moon, banish, rampart, lest, ordure, market day and 74 more...
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The Basic Kafka
Words gathered while reading The Basic Kafka, a collection of the short fiction, aphorisms, letters, and diary entries of Franz Kafka.
endways, fretwork, dun, manoeuvre, uprush, hale, execrate, ministration, curtaining, conduce, propitiate, greatcoat and 35 more...
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yarb Yes, we used to use this jocularly when I were a lad. Apr 11, 2011
Wordplayer What a quaint name for a tavern! Apr 10, 2011
brtom Latin for him! A cat and fiddle. No, no; the alehouse and the stable are the only schools he’ll ever go to.
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I Jan 8, 2007