BREWERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brewery mean? 

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

1. a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREWERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant where beer is brewed by fermentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)

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

brewpub (a combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with food)

microbrewery (a small brewery; consumption of the product is mainly elsewhere)

Derivation:

brew (prepare by brewing)

 Context examples 

Uncle, calmly admiring his boots—"No, my dear, not unless you want beer, that's a brewery."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They are weak minded, and the established impresses itself upon them as easily as the name of the brewery is impressed on a beer bottle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)