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Rathskeller

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A restaurant or tavern, usually below street level, that serves beer.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A bar or restaurant in a basement, especially one that serves beer.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Orig., in Germany, the cellar or basement of the city hall, usually rented for use as a restaurant where beer is sold; hence, a beer saloon of the German type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are essentially basement restaurants where liquors are served.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The cellar of a town hall; a public wine-cellar; hence, a room, or rooms, below the level of the street, in which wine and beer are sold.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall

Word Usage

"The "rathskeller" was Larry Blake's trademark, a subterranean beer hall where some of the Bay Area's best blues, jazz and R&B bands performed over the decades."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

taphouse tavern

Cross Reference

bierkeller

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