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bar.

a bar, counter, drink cabinet

3 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɑr/
  1. a bar, counter, drink cabinet

    masculine
  2. a bar, pub serving alcohol

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from English bar.

adj/bɑr/
  1. harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (“cold”), or omstandigheden (“conditions”))

  2. barren, inhospitable, bare

  3. 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.

adv/bɑr/
  1. 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.

noun/bɑr/
  1. 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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