Synonyms for bar
bɑrbar

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. bar

   A bar is something that is or may be firmly fixed, ordinarily with intent to prevent entrance or egress; as, the bars of a prison cell; the bars of a wood-lot. A barrier obstructs, but is not necessarily impassable. Barrier is used of objects more extensive than those to which bar is ordinarily applied. A mountain range may be a barrier to exploration; but a mass of sand across the entrance to a harbor is called a bar. Discovered falsehood is a bar to confidence. Barricade has become practically a technical name for an improvised street fortification, and, unless in some way modified, is usually so understood. A parapet is a low or breast-high wall, as about the edge of a roof, terrace, etc., especially, in military use, such a wall for the protection of troops; a rampart is the embankment surrounding a fort, on which the parapet is raised; the word rampart is often used as including the parapet. Bulwark is a general word for any defensive wall or rampart; its only technical use at present is in nautical language, where it signifies the raised side of a ship above the upper deck, topped by the rail. Compare BOUNDARY; IMPEDIMENT.

   Synonyms:
   barricade, barrier, breastwork, bulwark, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, parapet, prohibition, rampart, restraint, restriction

   Antonyms:
   admittance, entrance, opening, passage, road, thoroughfare, transit, way

   Preposition:
   A barrier to progress, against invasion; a barrier between nations.

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1. barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproomnoun

   a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter

   "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar"

   Synonyms:
   cake, sedan, prevention, legal profession, legal community, pothouse, gin mill, public house, barroom, ginmill, taphouse, measure, saloon, stripe, streak, taproom, pub

   Antonyms:
   unbar

2. barnoun

   a counter where you can obtain food or drink

   "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

   Antonyms:
   unbar

3. barnoun

   a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon

   "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape"

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

   Antonyms:
   unbar

4. measure, barnoun

   musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats

   "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"

   Synonyms:
   measure, standard, measuring stick, metre, quantity, meter, amount, mensuration, legal profession, measuring, taproom, criterion, streak, barroom, step, bill, prevention, measurement, saloon, beat, cake, stripe, legal community, ginmill, cadence, measuring rod, touchstone

   Antonyms:
   unbar

5. barnoun

   an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal

   "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

   Antonyms:
   unbar

6. prevention, barnoun

   the act of preventing

   "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

   Antonyms:
   unbar

7. barnoun

   (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter

   "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter"

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

   Antonyms:
   unbar

8. barnoun

   a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore

   "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

   Antonyms:
   unbar

9. legal profession, bar, legal communitynoun

   the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction

   "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey"

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

   Antonyms:
   unbar

10. stripe, streak, barnoun

    a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background

    "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"

    Synonyms:
    cake, prevention, legal profession, legal community, barroom, ginmill, measure, run, stripe, streak, band, taproom, chevron, stripes, grade insignia, saloon, banding

    Antonyms:
    unbar

11. cake, barnoun

    a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)

    "a bar of chocolate"

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, patty, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

    Antonyms:
    unbar

12. Browning automatic rifle, BARnoun

    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

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

    Antonyms:
    unbar

13. barnoun

    a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

    Antonyms:
    unbar

14. barnoun

    a heating element in an electric fire

    "an electric fire with three bars"

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

    Antonyms:
    unbar

15. barverb

    (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried

    "spectators were not allowed past the bar"

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

    Antonyms:
    unbar

16. bar, debar, excludeverb

    prevent from entering; keep out

    "He was barred from membership in the club"

    Synonyms:
    except, ward off, debar, leave out, fend off, block up, banish, avoid, forfend, avert, boot out, suspend, turf out, block off, shut, blockade, head off, leave off, deflect, stave off, take out, keep out, block, exclude, stop, forefend, chuck out, barricade, turn out, obviate, relegate, shut out, eject, omit

    Antonyms:
    unbar

17. barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, barverb

    render unsuitable for passage

    "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"

    Synonyms:
    debar, block up, banish, lug, cease, immobilize, seal off, relegate, obturate, hold on, give up, jam, arrest, block off, close up, end, blank out, freeze, finish, obstruct, terminate, deflect, parry, embarrass, hold back, kibosh, lay off, draw a blank, stop over, hinder, break, impede, block, shut off, forget, exclude, stop, stuff, stymy, break off, turn back, blockade, immobilise, occlude, barricade, discontinue, halt, contain, close off, barricado, choke up, intercept, stymie, quit, check

    Antonyms:
    unbar

18. banish, relegate, barverb

    expel, as if by official decree

    "he was banished from his own country"

    Synonyms:
    barricade, blockade, block up, relegate, bump, cast out, banish, classify, ban, blackball, submit, demote, break, debar, block, kick downstairs, ostracize, block off, pass on, exclude, ostracise, stop, shun

    Antonyms:
    unbar

19. barverb

    secure with, or as if with, bars

    "He barred the door"

    Synonyms:
    stop, block, exclude, relegate, banish, barricade, block up, block off, debar, blockade

    Antonyms:
    unbar

Matched Categories

1. • Automatic Rifle
   • Barrier
   • Block
   • Counter
   • Expel
   • Forbid
   • Heating Element
   • Hindrance
   • Implement
   • Law
   • Marking
   • Meteorology
   • Musical Notation
   • Obstruction
   • Pressure Unit
   • Profession
   • Ridge
   • Room
   • Secure
   • Support

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barnoun

   Synonyms:
   obstacle, hinderance, obstruction, barrier, BARRICADE, stop, impediment

2. barnoun

   Synonyms:
   rail, railing

3. barnoun

   Synonyms:
   tribunal, judgment-seat

4. barnoun

   Synonyms:
   body of lawyers

5. barverb

   Synonyms:
   fasten with a bar

6. barverb

   Synonyms:
   hinder, obstruct, stop, prevent

7. barverb

   Synonyms:
   exclude, shut out

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. barnoun

   Synonyms:
   obstruction, barrier, impediment, obstacle, barricade, hindrance, shoal, sandbar, bank, ingot, lever, pole, rod, tribunal, judgment-seat, jimmy, betty

2. barverb

   Synonyms:
   debar, except, exclude, obstruct, restrain, hinder

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "bar":

   bars, barra, barreau, barre, rod, lawyers, barrette, rbb, helm, barristers, bass, toolbar, handrail, counsel, saloon, pub, barrister, solicitors, cantina, stroke, stand, attorneys, slash, handlebar, solicitor, colegio, lawyer, tiller, solidus, striped

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1. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee:

   We are standing united as San Franciscans to condemn North Carolina’s new discriminatory law that turns back the clock on protecting the rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly-funded City employee travel to the State of North Carolina that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.

2. James Burrows:

   Thanks for laughing, embracing and loving the characters for all of those years, and still on occasion, when somebody walks into a bar, hollering, 'NORM!'.

3. Alan Sheppard:

   Samsung will definitely have to come in even lower, from the payer's perspective, the bar has now been set with expectations of sizeable discounts.

4. Tom Bilyeu:

   Everything else on the market was a candy bar in disguise.

5. Kevin McAlister:

   Apparently he's hoping that most wouldn't expect a full accounting of his consulting company, additional corporate ownerships, rental income from properties co-owned with (Rubio friend) David Rivera, capital gains, household employees, and self-employment, what is Marco Rubio hiding by not reaching the bar he's setting for Trump and releasing his full tax returns?