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nounA bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks....Devil's Herd, the city's most popular country-western bar....the Brass Nickel Bar.A bar is a room in a pub or hotel where alcoholic drinks are served.I'll see you in the bar later.On the ship there are lounges, a bar and a small duty-free shop.A bar is a counter on which alcoholic drinks are served.Michael was standing alone by the bar when Brian rejoined him.He leaned forward across the bar.A bar is a long, straight, stiff piece of metal....a brick building with bars across the ground floor windows....a crowd throwing stones and iron bars.A bar of something is a piece of it which is roughly rectangular.What is your favourite chocolate bar?...a bar of soap.A bar of an electric fire is a piece of metal with wire wound round it that glows and provides heat when the fire is switched on....a two-bar electric fire with a frayed flex.If something is a bar to doing a particular thing, it prevents someone from doing it.One of the fundamental bars to communication is the lack of a common language.In industry after industry, government bodies have erected bars to competition.The Bar is used to refer to the profession of a barrister in England, or of any kind of lawyer in the United States.Robert was planning to read for the Bar.In music, a bar is one of the several short parts of the same length into which a piece of music is divided.verbIf you bar a door, you place something in front of it or a piece of wood or metal across it in order to prevent it from being opened.For added safety, bar the door to the kitchen.The windows were closed and shuttered, the door was barred.If you bar someone's way, you prevent them from going somewhere or entering a place, by blocking their path.Harry moved to bar his way.He stepped in front of her, barring her way.If someone is barred from a place or from doing something, they are officially forbidden to go there or to do it.Foreign journalists are barred from entering the country.Many jobs were barred to them.prepositionYou can use bar when you mean 'except'. For example, all the work bar the washing means all the work except the washing.Bar a large massage table, there wasn't much furniture in the room.The aim of the service was to offer everything the independent investor wanted, bar advice. B2

word	bar
definition	noun A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks. ...Devil's Herd, the city's most popular country-western bar. ...the Brass Nickel Bar. A bar is a room in a pub or hotel where alcoholic drinks are served. I'll see you in the bar later. On the ship there are lounges, a bar and a small duty-free shop. A bar is a counter on which alcoholic drinks are served. Michael was standing alone by the bar when Brian rejoined him. He leaned forward across the bar. A bar is a long, straight, stiff piece of metal. ...a brick building with bars across the ground floor windows. ...a crowd throwing stones and iron bars. A bar of something is a piece of it which is roughly rectangular. What is your favourite chocolate bar? ...a bar of soap. A bar of an electric fire is a piece of metal with wire wound round it that glows and provides heat when the fire is switched on. ...a two-bar electric fire with a frayed flex. If something is a bar to doing a particular thing, it prevents someone from doing it. One of the fundamental bars to communication is the lack of a common language. In industry after industry, government bodies have erected bars to competition. The Bar is used to refer to the profession of a barrister in England, or of any kind of lawyer in the United States. Robert was planning to read for the Bar. In music, a bar is one of the several short parts of the same length into which a piece of music is divided. verb If you bar a door, you place something in front of it or a piece of wood or metal across it in order to prevent it from being opened. For added safety, bar the door to the kitchen. The windows were closed and shuttered, the door was barred. If you bar someone's way, you prevent them from going somewhere or entering a place, by blocking their path. Harry moved to bar his way. He stepped in front of her, barring her way. If someone is barred from a place or from doing something, they are officially forbidden to go there or to do it. Foreign journalists are barred from entering the country. Many jobs were barred to them. preposition You can use bar when you mean 'except'. For example, all the work bar the washing means all the work except the washing. Bar a large massage table, there wasn't much furniture in the room. The aim of the service was to offer everything the independent investor wanted, bar advice.
inflections	barsbarringbarredbarred
cefr-level	B2

Bar Piece Barred Place Alcoholic Fire Drinks Served