barkeeper vs publican

barkeeper

noun
  • A bartender: a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar. 

publican

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

  • A 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. 

  • The manager or owner of a hotel. 

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