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Definition of salon noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

salon

noun
 
/ˈsælɒn/
 
/səˈlɑːn/
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  1. a shop that gives customers hair or beauty treatment or that sells expensive clothes
    • a beauty salon
    • a hairdressing salon
    see also beauty salon
    Extra Examples
    • He now runs his own hairdressing salon in Melbourne.
    • The hotel has just opened a sauna, solarium and beauty salon.
    Topics Shoppingb2, Appearanceb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • beauty
    • hair
    • hairdressing
    • …
    verb + salon
    • go to
    • visit
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  2. (old-fashioned) a room in a large house used for entertaining guests
  3. (in the past) a regular meeting of writers, artists and other guests at the house of a famous or important person
    • a literary salon
    4. Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French, from Italian salone ‘large hall’, augmentative of sala ‘hall’.
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