bar – English noun declension

English noun forms of bar

Noun: bar
Singularbar
Pluralbars

Sample Sentences

  • The window was protected by steel bars.
  • Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
  • We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
  • bar of chocolate
  • bar of soap
  • a bar of light
  • a bar of colour
  • The street was lined with all-night bars.
  • Step up to the bar and order a drink.
  • a coffee bar
  • a juice bar
  • a burger bar
  • a local fish bar
  • a nail bar
  • a brow bar
  • The club has lifted its bar on women members.
  • The Chief Medical Officer of London Transport believes that public opinion against smoking will harden to the point of a total bar on the Underground, as in other countries. [1959 May 26, “Accommodation for Non-Smokers”, in Railway Magazine, pages 295-296:]
  • Muſt I new bars to my own joy create? [1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act V, page 83:]
  • Sexual preference or orientation shall not be a bar to becoming a foster parent. [1987 February 1, Nancy A. Coleman, “Foster Care: Case By Case Basis”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 5:]
  • Mr Harding could look back on his initial judgement of Paul's talent with great satisfaction while Paul could reflect that to be Irish was not necessarily a bar to progress. [2013, Terence Dillon, A Long Way Home, page 184:]
  • He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
  • He was called to the bar. (He became a barrister.)
  • I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.
  • That rapper there, yeah, he got bars.
  • His musical journey, and this is a quote, is “a constant push and pull between self awareness and delusion”. That’s bars right there to be honest. [2025 June 13, “Matt Miggz: Drums, Delusion, and Staying True”, in WAVS BLOG:]
  • to set the bar high/low
  • to raise the bar
  • […] there’s no World War III now, but in the words of the prominent Never Trumper and Atlantic contributor Eliot Cohen, “that’s a pretty low bar.” [2020 March 10, Kathy Gilsinan, quoting Eliot Cohen, “Confessions of an Ex–Never Trumper”, in The Atlantic:]
  • Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar. [2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:]
  • Travellers change at Batoum into a steamer which performs the service between that port and Poti, and which has a less draught of water to enable it to cross the bar of the river Rion. [1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 320:]
  • On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways. [1957 February 26, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:]
  • Temple Bar, London
  • Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckin bar. [1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “The First Shag in Ages”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 151:]

Etymology

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre. See: Middle English Nouns 'barre'.

Verbs referencing "bar"

Catalan Nouns bar, Danish Nouns bar, Dutch Nouns bar, French Nouns bar, Icelandic Nouns bar, Irish Nouns bar, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns bar, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bar, Portuguese Nouns bar, English Nouns barista, Catalan Nouns barra, Portuguese Nouns barra, Spanish Nouns barra, German Nouns Bar, Russian Nouns бар, Finnish Nouns baari, Hungarian Nouns bár, Irish Nouns beár, Zulu Nouns ibha.