barbarbars1noun1a place where people can go and buy drinks, especially alcoholic drinks: There's a bar in the hotel.2a long, high table where you buy drinks in a bar or pub: We stood at the bar.3a place where you can get a particular kind of food or drink: a coffee bara sandwich barLook at the note at restaurant.4a small block of something hard: a bar of soapa bar of chocolate5a long thin piece of metal: There were iron bars on the windows.barbarbarsbarredbarring2verb (bars, barring, barred)1to put something across a place so that people cannot pass: A line of police barred the road.2to say officially that somebody must not do something or go somewhere: He was barred from the club for fighting.