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Tavern

A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

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Bucket shop 76% connected

An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.

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Pothouse 76% connected

An alehouse.

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Saloon 76% connected

A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amus…

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Shebeen 76% connected

A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.

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Taphouse 76% connected

A house where liquors are retailed.

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Building 76% connected

of Build

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Edifice 76% connected

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…

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Altar noun · 86% connection

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

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Arcade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Arch noun · 86% connection

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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Area noun · 86% connection

a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

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Arena noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Balance noun · 86% connection

equality of distribution

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Balcony noun · 86% connection

a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Bascule noun · 86% connection

a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)

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Boarding noun · 86% connection

a structure of boards

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Body noun · 86% connection

the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

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Bowl noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Bridge noun · 86% connection

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

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Catchment noun · 86% connection

a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)

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Coil noun · 86% connection

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

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Colonnade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Column noun · 86% connection

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

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Complex noun · 86% connection

a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

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Construction noun · 86% connection

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair i…

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Accommodation noun · 78% connection

living quarters provided for public convenience; "the nearby hotel offers overnight accommodation"

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Ancient adjective · 78% connection

Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: public, house, travelers, transient, guests.
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Attic adjective · 78% connection

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

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Auberge noun · 78% connection

a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

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Auction noun · 78% connection

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

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Baron noun · 78% connection

A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and G…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: public, house, travelers, transient, guests.
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Board verb · 78% connection

To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: public, house, travelers, transient, guests.
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Boarder noun · 78% connection

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: public, house, travelers, transient, guests.
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Cafeneh noun · 78% connection

A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold.

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Chamber noun · 78% connection

A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out o…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: public, house, travelers, transient, guests.
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Court noun · 78% connection

a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area

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Hospitable adjective · 78% connection

Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospit…

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Hostel noun · 78% connection

a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

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Hostelry noun · 78% connection

a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

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