Usually means: Establishment serving drinks and sometimes food.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. BAR, BAr, Bar, bar, bar-, the bar: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Bar, bar, bar, bar, the Bar, the bar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. BAR, Bar, bar, bar, bar, bar-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Bar-, bar, bar, the Bar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. BAR, bar: Vocabulary.com
  6. B'ar, Bar, b'ar, bar: Wordnik
  7. bar, the Bar, the bar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bar, bar, bar-: Wiktionary
  9. bar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BAR, b.ar, bar, bar-: Dictionary.com
  13. bar (1), bar (2), bar (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. B.A.R, B.A.R. (Bay Area Representatives), BAR, Bar (Aramaic), Bar (Croatian TV series), Bar (TV Poland), Bar (computer science), Bar (counter), Bar (dance), Bar (diacritic), Bar (disambiguation), Bar (drinking establishment), Bar (establishment), Bar (form), Bar (heraldry), Bar (landform), Bar (law), Bar (medal), Bar (music), Bar (name), Bar (pressure), Bar (river morphology), Bar (tropical cyclone), Bar (unit), Bar, The Bar (TV series), The Bar (film), The Bar (franchise), The Bar (painting), The Bar (professional wrestling), The Bar (radio network), The bar, .bar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bar: Rhymezone
  19. Bar (f), bar, bar, bar, bar (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BAR, bar: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Bar, Bar, Bar: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. bar: Free Dictionary
  24. bar: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. bar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. bar: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. Bar (Exam): The Word Detective
  28. BAR, Bar, The bar, bar-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  29. bar: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  3. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com French Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Warhammer Dwarven Word List (No longer online)
  7. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  8. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. bar-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  10. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. bar: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. bar: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. BAR: Accounting Glossary
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Bar: bizterms.net
  10. BAR, Bar: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  11. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  13. Bar: Investopedia
  14. Bar (Aramaic), Bar (association), Bar (disambiguation), Bar (law), Bar (tavern), The bar, bar: Legal dictionary
  15. Bar (disambiguation), Bar, The bar: Financial dictionary
  16. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  17. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bar: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Bar (association), Bar (disambiguation), Bar (establishment), Bar (landform), Bar (law), Bar (tavern), Bar (unit), The bar, bar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bar (disambiguation), Bar (unit), The bar, bar, bar-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. BAR: Acronym Finder
  3. BAR: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. The bar, bar: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bar: Easton Bible

Science (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bar: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Bar: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bar: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  6. Bar: Extragalactic Astronomy
  7. bar: Nine Planets Glossary
  8. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  9. BAR: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  10. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  11. BAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bar, bar, bar, bar, bar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bar: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Bar: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. bar: The Folk File
  5. B.A.R, The Bar: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bar: BEACH-NET! (fishing)
  2. Bar: Backgammon
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. BAR: Bicycle Glossary
  5. Bar: Sports Definitions

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. bar: Canadian Soil Information System
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  10. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  11. Bar: Latitude Mexico

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noun:  A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
noun:  A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
noun:  A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
noun:  A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
noun:  (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
noun:  (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
noun:  (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
noun:  A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
noun:  The counter of such premises.
noun:  A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
noun:  (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
noun:  An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
noun:  An establishment offering cosmetic services.
noun:  An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
noun:  Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
noun:  (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
noun:  (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
noun:  (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
noun:  (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
noun:  (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
noun:  (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
noun:  (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
noun:  (music) One of those musical sections.
noun:  (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
noun:  (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
noun:  (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
noun:  (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
noun:  An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
noun:  (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
noun:  A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
noun:  (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
noun:  A city gate, in some British place names.
noun:  (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
noun:  (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
noun:  (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
noun:  (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
noun:  (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
noun:  (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
noun:  (slang, hip-hop) A complimentary reference to a rapper's lyrics, especially when good.
verb:  (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive) To prohibit.
verb:  (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
verb:  To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
noun:  A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
noun:  A town and municipality of Montenegro
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
noun:  A city in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
noun:  (legal senses) Alternative spelling of bar. [A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.]
noun:  (military) Initialism of Browning Automatic Rifle.
adjective:  (veterinary medicine, slang) Acronym of bright, alert, responsive. [Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.]

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