bar.
a bar, counter, drink cabinet
Meaning & usage
a bar, counter, drink cabinet
a bar, pub serving alcohol
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from English bar.
harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (“cold”), or omstandigheden (“conditions”))
barren, inhospitable, bare
crude, grim, unfriendly
Where this word comes from
Doublet of baar (“bare”), which see for more. Baar continues the Middle Dutch inflected stem, bar the uninflected stem.
extremely (only in a negative sense)
Where this word comes from
Doublet of baar (“bare”), which see for more. Baar continues the Middle Dutch inflected stem, bar the uninflected stem.
bar (a unit of pressure, equal to 100,000 pascals)
Where this word comes from
From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.
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