Definitions For Bar

noun

  • The act of preventing
  • A rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
  • An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
  • A counter where you can obtain food or drink
  • (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
  • A heating element in an electric fire
  • A horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
  • A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
  • A portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War
  • A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
  • A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
  • Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
  • The body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
  • A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
  • (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
  • To put a bar or a set of bars in front of a door, window, etc., so that people cannot go in or out of it
  • To put something in a road, path, etc., so that people cannot get by
  • To prevent or forbid (someone) fromdoing something

verb

  • Prevent from entering; keep out
  • Secure with, or as if with, bars
  • Render unsuitable for passage
  • Expel, as if by official decree

Is Bar a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
5
Words with Friends
6

The word Bar is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Bar in a Sentence

  • He barred the door as soon as he got in.
  • All the windows and doors were barred.
  • A herd of goats was barring the road.
  • They have lost every match, bar one.
  • Everyone in the company is invited, bar none

Synonyms for Bar

Antonyms for Bar

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