TAPROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does taproom mean? 

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

1. a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAPROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bar; barroom; ginmill; saloon; taproom

Context example:

he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar

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

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

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

barrelhouse; honky-tonk (a cheap drinking and dancing establishment)

cocktail lounge (a barroom in a hotel or restaurant where cocktails are served)

sawdust saloon (a saloon whose floor is covered with sawdust)

speakeasy ((during prohibition) an illegal barroom)

Holonyms ("taproom" is a part of...):

gin mill; pothouse; pub; public house; saloon; taphouse (tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals)

 Context examples 

“I’ve just ’eard in my taproom that the four men I spoke of left for Crawley at one o’clock.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)