bartender

[bahr-ten-der]

noun

1. a person who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.

bartender

/ ˈbɑːˌtɛndə /

noun

1. a person who serves in a bar

Word History and Origins

Origin of bartender¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; bar ¹ + tender ³

Example Sentences

One method, Friend A recalls, was simple: Agnes would befriend someone who offered to buy her a drink, then quietly ask the bartender to skip the drink and hand her the cash instead.

From BBC

I asked a bartender once how he was doing, and he goes, “Man, I don’t know if I’m living longer or just waiting to die.”

From Los Angeles Times

A voluble man, Loftus draws on his colorful life experience — “I was a bartender for years, broke up bar fights,” he said — to coach with a playful rigor.

From Los Angeles Times

Young adults in hiking gear sipped beers beneath chandeliers shaped like wagon wheels as old timers with gray ponytails and cowboy hats chatted with a tattooed bartender.

From Los Angeles Times

“We played the jukebox while democracy fell,” Price sings, while the bartender yells that it’s last call and you’re still crying in your beer.

From Salon

Related Words

• barkeeper 
• mixologist 
• tapster