Noun: saloon
| Singular | saloon |
| Plural | saloons |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: pub; see also Thesaurus:pub
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A pint of beer in the saloon bar costs a penny more than in the public bar.
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The black Peugeot which stood there might indeed have been the saloon they had seen, but it might equally have been one of a million others on the French roads. [1953, Ian Fleming, “Black Patch”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 177:]
Nouns inflected like saloon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: French Nouns '
salon', Italian Nouns '
salone'.
Verbs referencing "saloon"
Italian Nouns
saloon, Romanian Nouns
saloon, Swedish Nouns
saloon, Finnish Nouns
saluuna.