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Webster 1913 Edition


Salon


Saˊlon′

,
Noun.
[F. See
Saloon
.]
1.
An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

Definition 2024


Salon

Salon

See also: saloon, salon, salón, ŝalon, and sal-on

German

Noun

Salon m (genitive Salons, plural Salons)

  1. lounge
  2. salon
  3. saloon
  4. (Austria) living room

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salon

salon

See also: saloon, Salon, salón, ŝalon, and sal-on

English

Noun

A 17th century salon

salon (plural salons)

  1. a large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests
  2. a gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting
  3. an art gallery
  4. a beauty salon or similar establishment

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Esperanto

Noun

salon

  1. accusative singular of salo

Finnish

Etymology 1

Noun

salon

  1. Genitive singular form of salo.

Etymology 2

Noun

salon

  1. Genitive singular form of salko.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Italian salone (large hall), augmented form of sala (hall), from Lombardic sala (room, house, entrance hall), from Proto-Germanic *salą (dwelling, house, hall), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (human settlement, village, dwelling). Cognate with Old High German sal (room, house, entrance hall), Old English sæl (room, hall, castle), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, courtyard, village), Lithuanian sala (village).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [salɔ̃]

Noun

salon m (plural salons)

  1. living room
  2. salon
  3. show (exhibition of items), exhibition (large-scale public showing of objects or products)

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈlon/

Noun

salon (plural salones)

  1. sitting room, living room

Norman

Noun

salon m (plural salons)

  1. (Jersey) drawing room

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.lɔn/

Noun

salon m inan

  1. living room
  2. any large room
  3. service point; shop; store; parlor; used especially for shops in a shopping center
  4. exhibition; show
  5. (pejorative, singular only) ruling class; elite; the establishment

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French salon, from Italian salone.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sǎloːn/
  • Hyphenation: sa‧lon

Noun

sàlōn m (Cyrillic spelling са̀ло̄н)

  1. living room
  2. parlor (room for lounging)
  3. gallery (institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art)
  4. gallery (establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art)
  5. shop (hairdresser, tailor, massage etc.)
    frizerski salon ― barbershop
    krojački salon ― tailor shop

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References

  • salon” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from French salon.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sa‧lon

Noun

salon (definite accusative salonu, plural salonlar)

  1. living room
  2. shop, store

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  • (shop): güzellik salonu