Inn and Pub

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Inn noun - A place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests.

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Pub is a synonym for inn (British) in bar topic. In some cases you can use "Pub" instead a noun "Inn". popular alternative

Pub noun - A place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises.

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Inn is a synonym for pub in tavern topic. You can use "Inn" instead a noun "Pub". popular alternative

burning	burning inn	burning pub
old	old inn	old pub
full	full inn	full pub
best	best inn	best pub
Other adjectives: particular, complete, regular, certain, actual, entire, real, successful, little, dingy, new, traditional, titular, next, local, nearby, nearest, eponymous, unnamed, Scottish.

Given similar treatment is the word "pal" from the mouth of the guy in a dark back alley carrying a heavy, blunt weapon or "friend" from a bar/inn/pub owner.

Source: Terms of Endangerment
It may be an inn on a road in a Heroic Fantasy world, a Wild West saloon, a bar in a high-tech space station, or just a local pub — or it could be all of these at the same time.

Source: Inn Between the Worlds
Among other references, it has a pub named the Elephant that Shakespeare frequents (Twelfth Night has an inn of the same name).

Source: Shakespeare in Fiction

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