pub
English
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pʌb/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (US): (file)
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /pʊb/
- Rhymes: -ʌb, -ʊb
Etymology 1
Noun
pub (plural pubs)
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pub
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
- 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
- From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: pub
- → Estonian: pubi
- → Finnish: pub, pubi
- → French: pub
- → German: Pub
- → Greek: παμπ (pamp)
- → Hindi: पब (pab)
- → Icelandic: pöbb
- → Italian: pub
- → Japanese: パブ (pabu)
- → Korean: 퍼브 (peobeu)
- → Norwegian: pub
- → Polish: pub
- → Russian: паб (pab)
- → Mongolian: паб (pab)
- → Spanish: pub
- → Swedish: pub
- → Thai: ผับ (pàp)
Translations
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Verb
pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)
- (informal, intransitive) To go to one or more public houses.
Usage notes
- Most commonly in the phrase "go pubbing".
See also
Etymology 2
Noun
pub (plural pubs)
- (video games, slang) A public server.
- 2002, Sean C. Cunningham, “if you play on random public servers, you're an [sic] tool and have no right to complain about cheaters.”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet):
- Well there's private servers and then there's pubs that do their best to make sure everyone plays fair. The second option will be a lot easier to find.
Etymology 3
Clipping of publication.
Noun
pub (plural pubs)
- Clipping of publication.
- registered pubs
Etymology 4
Clipping of publish.
Verb
pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)
- (informal, transitive) to publish
Derived terms
Etymology 5
Clipping of publisher.
Noun
pub (plural pubs)
- Clipping of publisher.
- 1979 April 14, “Barbara G. (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
- Pubs say it's out of print, but it was supposed to have been reissued.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pub m (plural pubs, diminutive pubje n)
Related terms
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pub
Declension
Inflection of pub (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pub | pubit | |
genitive | pubin | pubien | |
partitive | pubia | pubeja | |
illative | pubiin | pubeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pub | pubit | |
accusative | nom. | pub | pubit |
gen. | pubin | ||
genitive | pubin | pubien | |
partitive | pubia | pubeja | |
inessive | pubissa | pubeissa | |
elative | pubista | pubeista | |
illative | pubiin | pubeihin | |
adessive | pubilla | pubeilla | |
ablative | pubilta | pubeilta | |
allative | pubille | pubeille | |
essive | pubina | pubeina | |
translative | pubiksi | pubeiksi | |
abessive | pubitta | pubeitta | |
instructive | — | pubein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
- “pub”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
pub f (plural pubs)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
pub m (plural pubs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pub”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pub m (invariable)
References
- ^ pub in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From British English pub (“public house”).
Noun
pub m (definite singular puben, indefinite plural puber, definite plural pubene)
References
- “pub” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- pøbb (eye dialect spelling)
Etymology
From British English pub (“public house”).
Noun
pub m (definite singular puben, indefinite plural pubar, definite plural pubane)
- a pub
Synonyms
References
- “pub” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English pub.
Pronunciation
Noun
pub m inan
- pub (public house)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- pub in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pub in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
pub n (plural puburi)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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+ indefinite article | + definite article | + indefinite article | + definite article | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pub | pubul | (niște) puburi | puburile |
genitive/dative | (unui) pub | pubului | (unor) puburi | puburilor |
vocative | pubule | puburilor |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Austrian German Bub, Bube.
Pronunciation
Noun
pȗb or pȕb m (Cyrillic spelling пу̑б or пу̏б) (regional)
- jack, knave in card games
Declension
Coordinate terms
Playing cards in Serbo-Croatian · igraće karte (layout · text) | ||||||
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as, kec | dvojka, dvica | trojka, trica | četvorka, četvrtica | petica | šestica | sedmica |
osmica | devetka, devetica | desetka, desetica | dečko, pub, žandar, fant | kraljica, dama | kralj | džoker |
References
- “pub”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
- “pub”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 5, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1973, published 1990, page 282
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English pub.
Pronunciation
Noun
pub m (plural pubs)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “pub”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
pub c
- a pub
Usage notes
Suggests an English-style pub, with cozy connotations, etc. Perhaps closest to how pub is used in American English.
Declension
See also
References
Anagrams
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ʌb
- Rhymes:English/ʌb/1 syllable
- Rhymes:English/ʊb
- English clippings
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- British English
- Irish English
- Commonwealth English
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- English informal terms
- English intransitive verbs
- en:Video games
- English slang
- English transitive verbs
- en:Bars
- en:Restaurants
- English three-letter words
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ʏp
- Rhymes:Dutch/ʏp/1 syllable
- Dutch terms with homophones
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 1-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ub
- Rhymes:Finnish/ub/1 syllable
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- French clippings
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- French terms with IPA pronunciation
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- French countable nouns
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- fr:Bars
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- Italian terms borrowed from English
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- Italian 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ab
- Rhymes:Italian/ab/1 syllable
- Italian lemmas
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- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish unadapted borrowings from English
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- Polish 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/ap
- Rhymes:Polish/ap/1 syllable
- Polish terms with homophones
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Bars
- Romanian terms borrowed from English
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- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Austrian German
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- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
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- Regional Serbo-Croatian
- sh:Card games
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ab
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ob
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- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
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- Swedish terms borrowed from English
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