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bar

noun

1 an iron bar:

rod, pole, stake, stick, batten, shaft, shank, rail, pale, paling, spar, strut, support, prop, spoke, crosspiece, girder, beam, boom.

2 a bar of chocolate:

block, slab, cake, tablet, brick, loaf, wedge, lump, chunk, hunk, cube, ingot, nugget, piece.

3 please purchase your drinks from the bar:

counter, table, buffet, stand.

4 she went to her favourite bar on West 43rd Street:

hostelry, tavern, inn, wine bar, cocktail bar, taproom;

British pub, public house, free house, tied house;

Scottish howff;

Canadian beer parlour;

Australian, New Zealand hotel;

Spanish cantina;

German bierkeller;

informal watering hole;

British, informal local, boozer;

North American, informal gin mill;

historical alehouse, pot-house, taphouse, beerhouse;

North American, historical saloon.

5 a bar to promotion:

obstacle, impediment, hindrance, obstruction, check, stop, block, hurdle, barrier, stumbling block, handicap, restriction, limitation.

▷antonyms aid.

6 British members of the Bar:

barristers, advocates, counsel.

7 he dredged a channel through the bar across the river mouth:

sandbank, shoal, bank, shallow, reef, ridge, ledge, shelf.

verb

1 they have barred the door:

bolt, lock, fasten, padlock, secure, latch, block, barricade, obstruct;

British deadlock;

Scottish, & Irish sneck, snib.

▷antonyms unbar.

2 they were barred from entering the country:

prohibit, debar, preclude, forbid, ban, interdict, inhibit;

exclude, keep out;

obstruct, hinder, restrain, check, block, impede, stop;

Law enjoin, estop.

▷antonyms admit; accept.

preposition

all the others, bar one, were killed:

except (for), apart from, but (for), other than, besides, aside from, with the exception of, short of, barring, excepting, excluding, omitting, leaving out, save (for), saving;

informal outside of.

▷antonyms including.

bar (1) Oxford Dictionary of English