bartender

English

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bartender

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• bar-tender

Etymology

From bar +‎ tender.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːˌtɛndə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹˌtɛndɚ/
• Hyphenation: bar‧tend‧er

Noun

bartender (plural bartenders)

1. One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar. [from 19th c.]
   • 2008, Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba:

     He observed as the sad bartender ritually played canasta with two bored and customerless dancers...

   • 2010, Erich R. Sysak, Water Heart:

     They weren't all just sexpats and drifters and former disgraced officers or old bartenders, none of which he should have mentioned.

Synonyms

• barkeep
• barkeeper
• mixologist

Hyponyms

• barmaid
• barman

Coordinate terms

• barback
• barista

Derived terms

• beertender
• budtender
• cheftender
• flair bartender
• potender

Related terms

• alewife
• knight of the spigot
• publican
• tapper
• tapster
• taverner
• victualler

Descendants

• → Cebuano: bartender
• → Danish: bartender
• → Norwegian Bokmål: bartender
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: bartender
• → Spanish: bartender
• → Swedish: bartender
• → Tagalog: bartender

Translations

person who works in a bar

Albanian: banakier (sq) m, pijeshitës (sq) m Armenian: բարմեն (hy) (barmen) Bulgarian: барман m (barman) Catalan: bàrman (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 酒吧服務人員 / 酒吧服务人员 (jiǔbā fúwù rényuán), (dated) 酒保 (zh) (jiǔbǎo), (mixologist) 調酒師 / 调酒师 (zh) (tiáojiǔshī) Czech: barman (cs) m, barmanka (cs) f Danish: bartender (da) c, barmand c (male), barpige c (younger female) Dutch: kastelein (nl) c Esperanto: trinkejisto Finnish: baarimikko (fi), baarimestari (fi) French: barman (fr) m Georgian: ბარმენი (barmeni) German: Barkeeper (de) m, Barmann (de) m, Barmixer m Greek: μπάρμαν (el) n (bárman) Hebrew: בַּרְמֶן (he) m (bármen), מוֹזֵג m (mozég) Hungarian: csapos, pultos (hu), bárpincér, bármixer (hu), mixer (hu) Icelandic: barþjónn m Ido: drinkeriisto Irish: buachaill tábhairne m Japanese: バーテンダー (ja) (bātendā), バーテン (ja) (bāten) Kazakh: бармен (barmen), бар даяшысы (bar daäşysy) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 바텐더 (ko) (batendeo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: meygêrr (ku) m or f, badegêrr (ku) m or f, saqî (ku) m or f, meyxanevan (ku) m or f Latin: vīnārius Macedonian: шанкер m (šanker), шанкерка f (šankerka), бармен m (barmen) Maori: tuari, whakarato inu Marathi: बार्टेंडर m (bārṭeṇḍar) Norwegian: Bokmål: bartender m Nynorsk: bartender m Old English: tæppere m Polish: barman (pl) m, barmanka (pl) f Portuguese: barman (pt) m Punjabi: ਬਾਰਟੈਂਡਰ m (bārṭaiṇḍar) Romanian: barman (ro) m, barmaniță (ro) f Russian: ба́рмен (ru) m (bármɛn), барме́н (ru) m (barmɛ́n), буфе́тчик (ru) m (bufétčik), буфе́тчица (ru) f (bufétčica) Serbo-Croatian: barmen (sh) m Spanish: barman (es) m or f, coctelero m (United States), barténder m or f (Latin America), cantinero m, copero (es) m, barista (es) m or f, bartender m or f (bártender, Americas) Swedish: bartender (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: barmen (tr) Ukrainian: барме́н m (barmén) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English bartender.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bar‧ten‧der
• IPA^(key): /ˌbaɾtenˈdeɾ/ [ˌbaɾ̪.t̪en̪ˈd̪iɾ̪]

Noun

bártendér

1. bartender

Related terms

• bar

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

bartender

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From American English bartender.

Noun

bartender m (definite singular bartenderen, indefinite plural bartendere, definite plural bartenderne)

1. a bartender, barman, barmaid (female)

   Den hyggelige kvinnelige bartenderen smiler til oss og ønsker oss velkommen.

   The pleasant barmaid smiles at us and bids us welcome.

Related terms

• bar

References

• “bartender” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From American English bartender.

Noun

bartender m (definite singular bartenderen, indefinite plural bartenderar, definite plural bartenderane)

1. a bartender, barman, barmaid (female)

Usage notes

Also spelt bartendar, perhaps unofficially.

Related terms

• bar

References

• “bartender” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• barténder

Etymology

Borrowed from English bartender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾtendeɾ/ [ˈbaɾ.t̪ẽn̪.d̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾtendeɾ
• Syllabification: bar‧ten‧der

Noun

bartender m or f by sense (plural bartenders)

1. bartender

   Synonym: barman

Further reading

• “bartender”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

bartender

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

Borrowed from English bartender.

Noun

bartender c

1. a bartender

Declension

Declension of bartender

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bartender	bartenders
	definite	bartendern	bartenderns
plural	indefinite	bartendrar	bartendrars
	definite	bartendrarna	bartendrarnas

See also

• bar
• bardisk (“bar counter, bar”)
• cocktail
• drink

References

• bartender in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bartender in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English bartender.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾtendeɾ/ [ˌbaɾ.t̪ɛn̪ˈd̪ɛɾ], /ˌbaɾˈtendeɾ/ [ˌbaɾˈt̪ɛn̪.d̪ɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾtendeɾ, -endeɾ
• Syllabification: bar‧ten‧der

Noun

bártendér or bárténder (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ᜔ᜆᜒᜈ᜔ᜇᜒᜇ᜔)

1. bartender

Related terms

• bar

Further reading

• “bartender”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “bartender”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.