ROADHOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roadhouse mean? 

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

1. an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROADHOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

auberge; hostel; hostelry; inn; lodge (a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers)

 Context examples 

Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)