saloon
/səˈlun/ noun
Forms saloons
- noun (US) A tavern, especially in an American Old West setting.
- noun (UK, dated) A lounge bar in an English public house, contrasted with the public bar. “A pint of beer in the saloon bar costs a penny more than in the public bar.”
- noun (UK) A car with a boot or trunk compartment separate from the driver/passenger space and with seating and doors for more than two people.
- noun The cabin area of a boat or yacht devoted to seated relaxation, often combined with dining table.
- noun (rail transport) the part of a rail carriage or multiple unit containing seating for passengers.
- noun (India, Nigeria) A barbershop (store offering haircuts).
Synonyms
pub alehouse boozer boozing ken bousing ken drinker drinkery gargle-factory gin joint groggery local nineteenth hole pot-house public house rummery tavern watering hole sedan barroom bar ginmill taproom pothouse gin mill taphouse
Etymology
From Occitan salon, French salon, either augmentative of salle (“room”), or borrowed from Italian salone (“hall”), augmentative form of sala, salla (“room”); in both cases borrowed from a Germanic source such as Old High German sal (“house, hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą, from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“dwelling”). Doublet of salon.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.
- noun Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.
Etymology [F. salon (cf. It. salone), fr. F. salle a large room, a hall, of German or Dutch origin; cf. OHG. sal house, hall, G. saal; akin to AS. sæl, sele, D. zaal, Icel. salr, Goth. saljan to dwell, and probably to L. solum ground. Cf. Sole of the foot, Soil ground, earth.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “saloon”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details