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  taverner

  noun

  the owner of a tavern.
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  Taverner

  noun

  John, 1490?–1545, English organist and composer.

taverner

¹ American  

[tav-er-ner] / ˈtæv ər nər /

noun

1. the owner of a tavern.

2. Obsolete. a frequenter of taverns.

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Taverner ² American  

[tav-er-ner] / ˈtæv ər nər /

noun

1. John, 1490?–1545, English organist and composer.

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taverner ¹ British  

/ ˈtævənə /

noun

1. archaic a keeper of a tavern

2. obsolete a constant frequenter of taverns

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Taverner ² British  

/ ˈtævənə /

noun

1. John. ?1495–1545, English composer, esp of church music; best known for the mass Western Wynde , based on a secular song

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Etymology

Origin of taverner

1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French tavernier. See tavern, -er ²

Example Sentences

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I wonder whether those golden locks carried off by the taverner had belonged to one of those queens of beauty sung by the troubadours!

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The office over, he lingered until St Agapit came to him, and the taverner then repeated the confession which he had already made, with such disastrous consequences, to Laroche.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by Trevena, John

The taverner who opened for me, and stood a moment surveying me by the light of the torch he held aloft, was a slim, mild-mannered man, not over-clean.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael

Another colleague of John Chaucer’s, John de Stodey, Mayor and Sheriff of London, had been formerly a taverner at Lynn.

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.

At sight of those horsemen, the taverner forgot my impatience, for he paused to bow in welcome to the one that seemed the leader.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael

When Taverner, the former volunteer manager, emailed the HR director to question whether the board was best placed to investigate one of its own members, he was sacked.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

While everyone around her is losing their heads, her Taverner can look directly into the roiling abyss and calculate a way, if not to fix it, then certainly to cover it up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

Having shivered over the eerie adventures of Algernon Blackwood’s psychic investigator, John Silence, I was led to other mysteries featuring occult detectives, starting with William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki the Ghost-Finder and Dion Fortune’s Dr. Taverner.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022

A celebrity named Jason Taverner draws 30 million viewers on his TV show.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

Of the Who introduces into Oxford a number of Cambridge students of unusual promise, but lying under suspicion of heresy. rest, John Clark, Sumner, and Taverner are the most noticeable.

From History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by Froude, James Anthony