If you only think about the tavern, it immediately brings up thoughts about the vacation, about the time of rest from the works of the righteous. But not the time to relax. First up is the deal. Consider not only the meaning of the word, but also the origin, as well as synonyms. We begin, as always, with history, for this is the foundation.
Origin
The etymological dictionary is brief. He indicates that in Russia, long ago, the so-called drinking establishments. But the word nevertheless is not ours, but borrowed from the Turkic, where it has the same meaning.
Of course, we still get to today's semantic content. But does something like that, at least remotely resembling modern restaurants, seem like the word “tavern”? Of course not! A tavern is a place where people walk without any restraint, and the rest of the feast of the gentlemen is picked up by people who are not so lucky in life, they pick up scum (in the old sense of the word, as it was given by F. M. Dostoevsky in “The Idiot”).
Now imagine a similar picture in a modern restaurant. This is completely impossible. If the guests of the establishment disperse, then they will be put up by the guard, and she simply will not miss any unhappy. Therefore, a tavern is not only a place, but also an atmosphere.
Value and Suggestions
The narrative is flowing smoothly these days. Let's look at the explanatory dictionary for a start:
- In the old days: a drinking establishment (now generally about restaurants, entertainment venues serving wine and food).
- Confusion, confusion (figurative, colloquial and disapproving).
Suggestions, while the meaning of "tavern" has not yet managed to be erased from memory:
- Eh, let's go, comrades, to the tavern, there is a ghoul and let's celebrate our long-awaited vacation.
- Peter understood that he was behaving inappropriately, but he asked those guys with whom he rented an apartment not to arrange a tavern from the kitchen, because he had an important exam tomorrow. How this story ended is unknown.
- Is a restaurant a tavern? The tavern is full of freedom, and in the restaurant, as soon as you find this very freedom, they will kick you out right away, well, if you do without bodily harm, otherwise you will remember such a trip for a long time.
Synonyms
No matter how much we say that the restaurant and the tavern are fundamentally different, but probably no one will believe it. Moreover, the taverns in a classic form have disappeared. For example, when you read or listen to the verses of S. A. Yesenin, of course, this rollicking, rugged, tavern Russia comes to mind. The reader clearly sees these lumpen, with whom the poet or his lyrical hero "fries alcohol". But now, when not all social problems have been resolved, but this can hardly be imagined. We now have either restaurants or eateries. Is it possible to compare a cafe with a tavern? Unlikely. That almost metaphysical substance of loathing is absent. However, whether or not we have a classic tavern, you should see what are the synonyms for the object of study:
- a restaurant;
- bar;
- tavern;
- shalman;
- beer house;
- tavern.
This is almost all, if you do not go into the repetition of what has already been completed. By the way, the closest to the meaning of the word “tavern” is probably a modern bar. The restaurant would be an ideal substitute, but you can only expect stylization from our time, and we are talking about the essence. On this and finish.