Public hotel is the Australian and New Zealand term for what the British would call a pub or public house.
Public hotel is the Australian and New Zealand term for what the British would call a pub or public house. The name reflects the historical licensing distinction where a hotel was permitted to serve alcohol to the general public — the public part of the establishment. Even when the accommodation function was nominal or nonexistent, the hotel label stuck. Today a public hotel in Australia is simply a bar or drinking venue, and locals often just call it a pub.
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(Australia, western, _, Canada) A public house or pub.
(UK, Australia, NZ, slang) A public house, pub.
(Australia) A room in a pub or hotel, separate from the main drinking area, in which drinks are served; originally a place for women to drink in when not welcome or not comfortable in the traditionally male-oriented public bar, and latterly a more genteel area than the public bar.
(British, dated) A lounge bar in an English public house, contrasted with the public bar.
They arranged to meet at the public hotel on the corner before heading to the football.
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(AU) A public house; a pub.
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