Scrabble & Words with friends points
- bar is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 5
- bar is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 5
- bar is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 6
Definition of bar
- 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 (noun)
Synonyms
- browning automatic rifle
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction (noun)
Examples
- he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey
Synonyms
- legal community
- legal profession
- prevent from entering; keep out (verb)
Examples
- He was barred from membership in the club
Synonyms
- debar
- exclude
- render unsuitable for passage (verb)
Examples
- barricade the streets
Synonyms
- barricade
- block
- block off
- block up
- blockade
- stop
- the act of preventing (noun)
Examples
- there was no bar against leaving
Synonyms
- prevention
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) (noun)
Examples
- a bar of chocolate
Synonyms
- cake
- expel, as if by official decree (verb)
Synonyms
- banish
- relegate
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats (noun)
Examples
- the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song
Synonyms
- measure
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background (noun)
Examples
- a green toad with small black stripes or bars
Synonyms
- streak
- stripe
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter (noun)
Examples
- he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar
Synonyms
- barroom
- ginmill
- saloon
- taproom
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink (noun)
Examples
- he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar
- a heating element in an electric fire (noun)
Examples
- an electric fire with three bars
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises (noun)
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal (noun)
Examples
- it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon (noun)
Examples
- there were bars in the windows to prevent escape
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore (noun)
Examples
- the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried (noun)
Examples
- spectators were not allowed past the bar
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter (noun)
Examples
- unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter
- secure with, or as if with, bars (verb)
Examples
- He barred the door
See definition of bar in Merriam Webster