pub

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pʌb/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /pʊb/
• Rhymes: -ʌb, -ʊb

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pub (plural pubs)

1. (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.

pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To go to one or more public houses.

• Most commonly in the phrase "go pubbing".

• inn
• off-licence
• tavern

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pub (plural pubs)

1. (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.

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pub (plural pubs)

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   registered pubs

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pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)

1. (informal, transitive) to publish

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pub (plural pubs)

1. 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.

• UPB

Borrowed from English pub.

pub c (singular definite pubben, plural indefinite pubber or pubs)

1. a pub

• værtshus
• bar
• kro

• “pub” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English pub.

• IPA^(key): /pʏp/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ʏp
• Homophone: pup

pub m (plural pubs, diminutive pubje n)

1. pub (public house, especially one in the UK or Ireland)

   Synonym: kroeg

• pubi

From English pub.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpub/, [ˈpub]
• Rhymes: -ub
• Syllabification^(key): pub
• Hyphenation^(key): pub

pub

1. pub

• “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 3 July 2023

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• IPA^(key): /pyb/

pub f (plural pubs)

1. Television ad or advert

• pause pub
• pubard

Borrowed from English pub.

• (France) IPA^(key): /pœb/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /pɔb/

pub m (plural pubs)

1. pub

• resto pub

• “pub”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English pub.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpab/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ab

pub m (invariable)

1. pub

From British English pub (“public house”).

pub m (definite singular puben, indefinite plural puber, definite plural pubene)

1. a pub

   Synonyms: bar, kro

• “pub” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• pøbb (eye dialect spelling)

From British English pub (“public house”).

pub m (definite singular puben, indefinite plural pubar, definite plural pubane)

1. a pub

• bar
• kro
• skjenkjestove
• ølbu

• “pub” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing from English pub.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpap/

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• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: pub
• Homophones: pap, PAP

pub m inan

1. pub (public house)

• pub in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pub in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English pub.

pub n (plural puburi)

1. pub

Borrowed from Austrian German Bub, Bube.

• IPA^(key): /pûːb/, /pûb/

pȗb or pȕb m anim (Cyrillic spelling пу̑б or пу̏б) (regional)

1. jack, knave in card games

Playing cards in Serbo-Croatian · igraće karte (layout · text)
as, kec	dvojka, dvica	trojka, trica	četvorka, četvrtica	petica	šestica	sedmica
osmica	devetka, devetica	desetka, desetica	dečko, pub, žandar, fant	kraljica, dama	kralj	džoker

• “pub”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “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

Unadapted borrowing from English pub.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpab/ [ˈpaβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -ab
• IPA^(key): /ˈpob/ [ˈpoβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -ob

pub m (plural pubs)

1. pub

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.

• “pub”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English pub.

pub c

1. a pub

Suggests an English-style pub, with cozy connotations, etc. Perhaps closest to how pub is used in American English.

• bar
• krog
• nattklubb

• pub in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pub in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• BUP, PBU