Bar
Bar noun - A place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises.
Usage example: a bar that serves meals as well as drinks
Saloon is a synonym for bar (North American) in place topic. In some cases you can use "Saloon" instead a noun "Bar", when it comes to topics like tavern, public house, historical, establishment serving alcohol. popular alternative
Nearby Word: barroom
Saloon
Saloon noun - A place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises.
Usage example: cowboys drinking in the saloon after their work was done for the day
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Synonyms for Saloon
Bar is a synonym for saloon in place topic. You can use "Bar" instead a noun "Saloon", if it concerns topics such as tavern. popular alternative
Nearby Word: salon
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Red Dead Redemption has several of these, and each saloon or bar contains at least one way to gamble away all your hard-earned cash.
Source: Minigame Zone -
In most Western films where there's a gunfight in a saloon, the bartender will produce a gun from behind the bar and join in.
Source: Two Shots from Behind the Bar -
Or even older given that Sonic was seen at Spike's Place a bar in the Metropolis Zone in Issue 82's story Running Wild (though he didn't drink), and Knuckles was seen in a saloon in the story The Good, The Bad and The Echidna.
Source: Not Allowed to Grow Up
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