biergarten

noun

bier·​gar·​ten ˈbir-ˌgär-tᵊn 

-dᵊn

plural biergartens

: beer garden

The cabbie drops us at a massive old aristocratic house that's been a biergarten for 200 years. … Five acres of outside picnic tables sit filled with exactly four customers.

—Mancow Muller et al., Dad, Dames, Demons, and a Dwarf: My Trip Down, 2003

The club is in the historic district, miles from the biergartens where their comrades fill themselves with liters of pale pilsner and oily sausage …

—Steve Almond, My Life In Heavy Metal: Stories, 2003

… Main Street filled up with gift shops and German restaurants and biergartens …

—Wine Spectator, 15 June 2005

Word History

First Known Use

1839, in the meaning defined above

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