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ALEHOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alehouse mean? 

ALEHOUSE (noun)
  The noun ALEHOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a tavern where ale is soldplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ALEHOUSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A tavern where ale is sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("alehouse" is a kind 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 had engaged a bed at a decent alehouse close by, and was going out at the gate, when, happening to turn my head, I saw a light in the Doctor's study.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I stayed to dine at a decent alehouse, some mile or two from the Ferry I have mentioned before; and thus the day wore away, and it was evening when I reached it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have seen Tom Pipes go climbing up the church-steeple; I have watched Strap, with the knapsack on his back, stopping to rest himself upon the wicket-gate; and I know that Commodore Trunnion held that club with Mr. Pickle, in the parlour of our little village alehouse.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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