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• taverner
  taverner

  noun

  the owner of a tavern.
• Taverner
  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

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)

Of the knightly rank by which the taverner addressed him the fellow bore no outward signs.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael

Gonzaga, still half uncertain of his ground, called the taverner and bade him bring a flagon of his best.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael

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

It was towards noon, at last, that a taverner at Castel Guelfo informed me that my party had passed through the town but half an hour ahead of me.

From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Sabatini, Rafael