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• taverner
  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

From the beginning wise and effective license laws had interdicted all dram-shops; even the taverner might sell spirits only to his transient guests, not to the people of the town.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

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.

"I doubt," answered the taverner, "it will be easier to get the Old Ship to look what she ort, than it will be to get you to look again like a publican's son."

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

My father was a taverner at Mosul and he died and left me much money.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

All the guests were silent, and fixed their eyes anxiously on the taverner.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)