BARKEEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barkeeper mean? 

• BARKEEPER (noun)
  The noun BARKEEPER has 1 sense:

1. an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar

  Familiarity information: BARKEEPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARKEEPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

barkeep; barkeeper; barman; bartender; mixologist

Hypernyms ("barkeeper" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barkeeper"):

barmaid (a female bartender)

publican; tavern keeper (the keeper of a public house)

 Context examples 

Martin drank on silently, biting out his orders and invitations and awing the barkeeper, an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But Martin turned away, leaving him to tell it to the barkeeper, until that worthy was called away to furnish drinks to two farmers who, coming in, accepted Martin's invitation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)