Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
albergo | (Ital.) an inn, auberge. |
alehouse | a public house. |
aparthotel | a hotel in which self-catering service apartments are available for rent. |
auberge | (Fr.) an inn. |
barrelhouse | a cheap saloon. |
beanery | (US sl.) a cheap restaurant. |
beerhall | a large drinking place. |
bistro | (Russian) a small bar or restaurant. |
bistroic | of or like a bistro, a small bar or restaurant. |
boatel | a waterside hotel, catering esp for boat-owners. |
bodega | (Spanish) a wine-cellar. |
boite | (Fr.) a nightclub. |
botel | a waterside hotel, catering esp for boat-owners. |
bottega | (Ital.) a wineshop. |
bousingken | (Obs.) in thieves' slang, a low drinking shop. |
brasserie | (Fr.) a restaurant serving alcoholic beverages, esp beer, as well as food. |
brewpub | a combined pub and small-scale brewery. |
bunkie | a small separate building for guests. |
buvette | (Obs.) in France, a small refreshment bar at the roadside. |
caf | a cafeteria or cafe. |
cafe | a coffee house or a small, inexpensive restaurant. |
cafeteria | a restaurant where customers serve themselves, or are served from, and usually pay at, a counter before sitting down to eat. |
caff | (Sl.) cafe. |
campsite | an area suitable for camping. |
cantina | (Spanish) a bar or saloon; a wineshop. |
caravansarai | a kind of unfurnished inn or extensive enclosed courtyard where caravans stop. |
caravansary | a kind of unfurnished inn or extensive enclosed courtyard where caravans stop. |
caravanserai | a kind of unfurnished inn or extensive enclosed courtyard where caravans stop. |
carvery | a type of buffet service restaurant where the main course meat is served from the joint on request. |
choltry | (Malay) a caravanserai; a shed used as a place of assembly. |
choultry | (Malay) a caravanserai; a shed used as a place of assembly. |
coffeehouse | an establishment that sells coffee and usually other refreshments and that commonly serves as an informal club for its regular customers. |
cookhouse | a place where cooking is carried out. |
cookshack | a shack used for cooking. |
cookshop | an eating house. |
creperie | (Fr.) a restaurant specialising in pancakes. |
dhaba | (Hindi) a roadside cafe or stall. |
doggery | a cheap saloon, a dive. |
dosshouse | a very cheap lodging-house. |
dramshop | a shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram. |
eaterie | a dining establishment. |
eatery | a dining establishment. |
ecolodge | a tourist accommodation facility designed to have minimal impact on the environment, often constructed as part of an environmental project. |
estaminet | (Fr.) a small cafe; a bistro. |
flophouse | (US) a cheap hotel, a dosshouse. |
fonda | (Spanish) a tavern. |
foodery | a restaurant. |
gasthaus | (German) a small hotel in Germany. |
gastropub | a pub that specializes in providing food and wine of a standard more typical of a fine restaurant than a traditional pub. |
gite | (Fr.) in France, a farmhouse offering holiday accommodation. |
grillery | a place where food is grilled. |
groggery | a low public-house. |
grogshop | a place where grog is sold. |
hospitale | (Spenser) lodging. |
hostel | a residence for students or for some class or society of people, esp one run charitably or not for profit; (verb) to stay at a hostel. |
hosteler | a person who lives in or uses a hostel, esp a youth hostel. |
hosteller | a person who lives in or uses a hostel, esp a youth hostel. |
hostelry | an inn. |
hostry | (Spenser) a hostelry; an inn or lodging house. |
hotel | a public lodging. |
hoteldom | the world of hotels. |
imaret | (Turkish) a lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims. |
inn | a hostelry; (verb, arch.) to put up at an inn. |
innless | without an inn. |
innyard | the courtyard surrounding an inn. |
luncheonette | a small restaurant serving light lunches. |
minshuku | (Japanese) a Japanese guesthouse. |
motel | a roadside hotel. |
munga | (NZ) an army canteen. |
niterie | (Coll.) a nightclub. |
nitery | (Coll.) a nightclub. |
nosherie | (Coll.) a cafe or restaurant. |
noshery | (Coll.) a cafe or restaurant. |
parador | (Spanish) a type of tourist accommodation, eg a converted castle, in Spain. |
pensione | (Ital.) a boarding-house. |
porterhouse | a house where malt liquor (as porter) is sold. |
posthouse | an inn, orig where horses were kept for posting. |
pothouse | an alehouse. |
potshop | a small public house. |
pousada | (Portuguese) a traditional hotel in Portugal or Portuguese speaking countries. |
pub | a public house; (verb) to visit a pub. |
pubco | a company that operates a chain of pubs. |
rathskeller | (Ger.) a usually basement tavern or restaurant. |
restaurant | a business establishment where meals or refreshments may be purchased. |
roadhouse | a roadside public house. |
rubbidy | (Aust. sl.) a pub. |
rubbity | (Aust. sl.) a pub. |
ryokan | (Japanese) a traditional Japanese inn. |
shebean | an illicit liquor shop. |
shebeen | an illicit liquor shop; (verb) to keep in a shebeen. |
shebeening | keeping in a shebeen. |
snackette | a snack bar. |
speakeasy | an illicit bar for selling alcohol. |
steakhouse | a restaurant specialising in steak. |
taphouse | a tavern. |
taqueria | (Spanish) a Mexican restaurant serving mainly tacos. |
tavern | a place where liquor is sold to be drunk on the premises. |
taverna | (Mod. Gr.) in Greece, a type of guesthouse with bar. |
teahouse | an establishment where tea is served. |
tearoom | a restaurant serving tea. |
teashop | a tearoom. |
terrasse | (Fr.) a paved area outside a French cafe > TERRASSES. |
trat | (Short for) a trattoria, an Italian restaurant. |
tratt | (Short for) a trattoria, an Italian restaurant. |
trattoria | (Ital.) an Italian restaurant. |
tray | the three in cards or dice. |