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
Examples
“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.”
“He orders that brigands and criminals be brought to justice and that the casual violence of the alehouse and the highway be controlled.”
“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.”
““Which I wish they was, and all in my breeches-pocket, and my breeches in an alehouse, and me inside my breeches.””
“When John Taylor, a bargeman and alehouse keeper turned journalist, published an edition of his Mercurius Aquaticus in 1643, he included a complete reprint of a rival paper, the Mercurius Britanicus — followed by a point-by-point smackdown of its contents.”
“MRS. BISSAGE: Does this have something to do with that alehouse blog thing?”
It's too early for any color on the redbuds of Madison, Wisconsin.
“We worked through the afternoons, in the bakehouse, the cellars, the alehouse, or the fields.”
“There had been no secret masses in alehouse garrets—indeed there had been no talk of religion at all.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alehouse’.
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
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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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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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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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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...
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I Jan 8, 2007