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

saloon

noun
 
/səˈluːn/
 
/səˈluːn/
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  1. (also saloon car)
     (both British English)
    (North American English sedan)
    a car with a boot (= space at the back for carrying things) that is separated from the part where the driver and passengers sit
    • a five-seater family saloon
    • a four-door saloon
    Topics Transport by car or lorryc2
  2. (also saloon bar)
    (also lounge bar)
     (all British English) a bar in a pub, hotel, etc. that is more comfortable than the other bars and where the drinks are usually more expensive
  3. a bar where alcoholic drinks were sold in the western US and Canada in the past
    • The cowboy died in a fight in a saloon.
    • There were sawdust-on-the-floor Western saloons with gunfights and poker games.
  4. a large comfortable room on a ship, used by the passengers to sit and relax in
    • The saloon on deck B has room for 140 passengers.
    5. Word Originearly 18th cent. (in the sense ‘drawing room’): from French salon, from Italian salone ‘large hall’, augmentative of sala ‘hall’.
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