喜樂美語
  1. 1酒吧老闆

    A publican is the person in charge of a pub — the one who runs the place, holds the licence, and is responsible for the drink, the staff, and the door. In Britain and Ireland this is the newspaper and law word; everyday talk often says landlord, landlady, or the owner. Australia uses publican a lot. American English almost never uses it this way. It is a little old-fashioned and official, not a word friends use for “the person behind the bar tonight.” Though actually, there is a second, older meaning that will surprise you: in the King James Bible a publican is a tax collector, a person who gathered money for Rome. That sense comes down a different Latin road, which is why “publicans and sinners” turns up in old church English. Same spelling, two jobs. If the story is about beer, it is the pub. If the story is a Sunday reading, it is probably the tax man. Neither meaning is “a member of the public.”

組成For the pub sense, probably from public house + -an, first used in a joking way. A separate older path is Latin pūblicānus, “tax collector,” from pūblicum, “state revenue.”

同家族的字

  • pubshort for public house; the place this publican runs
  • public housethe full name the -an was probably stuck onto

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Publicannoun

  • 1

    Synonym of Arnoldist.

publicannoun詞源 1/ˈpʌblɪk(ə)n/

  • 1

    The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house (“a bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging; a pub”).

    • I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, / The publican 'e up an 'sez, 'We serve no red-coats here.'
  • 2

    The manager or owner of a hotel.

publicannoun詞源 2/ˈpʌblɪk(ə)n/

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    historicalA tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire.

    • Matthevv vvhiche vvas other vvyſe alſo called Leui, beyng of a Puplican made an Apoſtle, firſt of all others compoſed and vvrote in Jevvrye, the ghoſpell of Chriſte in the Hebrue tounge, […]
    • [T]he Publicans, that is to ſaye, the cuſtomers and takers vp of tolles, […]
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    archaicAny person who collects customs duties, taxes, tolls, or other forms of public revenue.

    • Another ſort there be vvho vvhen they hear that all things ſhall be order'd, all things regulated and ſetl'd; nothing vvritt'n but vvhat paſſes through the cuſtom-houſe of certain Publicans that have the tunaging and the poundaging of all free ſpok'n truth, vvill ſtrait give themſelvs up into your hands, mak 'em, & cut 'em out vvhat religion ye pleaſe; […]
    • […] I am fallen into the hands of Publicans and Sequeſtrators, and they have taken all from me, vvhat novv? let me look about me. They have left me the Sun and the Moon, Fire and vvater, a loving vvife, and many friends to pity me, and ſome to relieve me, […]
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    archaicOne regarded as extorting money from others by charging high prices.

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    archaicChristianityA person excommunicated from the church; an excommunicant or excommunicate; also, a person who does not follow a Christian religion; a heathen, a pagan.

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