Tavern
（重定向自Pot House）
![Tavern Scene by Flemish artist David Teniers c. 1658](/Images/godic/202502/04/Tavern_Scene-1658-David_Teniers_II0734.jpg")
![A Dutch tavern scene by Jan Steen, late 17th century](/Images/godic/202502/04/Jan_Steen_-_Revelry_at_an_Inn_-_WGA217610734.jpg")
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![Buckman Tavern, where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired, Lexington, Massachusetts](/Images/godic/202502/04/Buckman_Tavern,_Lexington,_Massachusetts0734.JPG")
A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, and in most cases, where travelers receive lodging. An inn is a tavern which has a license to put up guests as lodgers. The word derives from the Latin taberna whose original meaning was a shed, workshop, stall, or pub.