Other Words for Bar

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Bar as a Noun has these synonyms:

bar-room, saloon, public house, café, lounge, cocktail lounge, tavern, taproom, canteen, local, wine bar, pub, boozer, gin-mill
Example: I was at the bar on my third beer when she walked in.

barrier, obstacle, obstruction, barricade, hindrance, block, deterrent, impediment, ban, embargo
Example: A steel bar was across the entrance. Her pride proved a bar to her success. There is a bar against importing spirits.

counter
Example: We had a quick lunch at the sandwich bar.

rod, shaft, pole, stick, stake
Example: A heavy iron bar is used to tamp the dynamite into place in the hole.

sandbar, shallow, shoal, bank, sandbank
Example: Because the keel is too deep, the sloop will be unable to cross the bar till high tide.

strip, stripe, band, belt, streak, line
Example: The company trade mark is a narrow red bar around the barrel of every ball-point pen.

tribunal, court, courtroom, lawcourt, bench
Example: The former mayor was found guilty of corruption at the bar of public opinion.

Bar as a Preposition has these synonyms:

except (for), excepting, excluding, barring, outside (of), save for, aside from, but
Example: It's all over now bar the shouting.

Bar as a Verb has these synonyms:

block, obstruct, stop, stay, hinder, keep (out), shut out, exclude, prevent, forbid, prohibit, set aside, forestall, impede, hamper, retard, balk, barricade, ban, embargo
Example: After his behavior, he was barred from the club for a year. A huge man in an ill-fitting dinner-jacket barred my way. The regulations bar the import of firearms.

fasten, close up, secure, shut up, lock, lock up, padlock
Example: We tried to get in through the window, but they had barred it.

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