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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SALOON', n. [See Hall.]
In architecture, a lofty spacious hall, vaulted at the top, and usually comprehending two stories with two ranges of windows. It is a magnificent room in the middle of a building, or at the head of a gallery, etc. It is a state room much used in palaces in Italy for the reception of embassadors and other visitors.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom]
2: tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals [syn: public house, pub, saloon, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse]
3: a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors [syn: sedan, saloon]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French salon, from Italian salone, augmentative of sala hall, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German sal hall; akin to Lithuanian sala village Date: 1728 1. a. chiefly British salon 1 b. chiefly British an often elaborately decorated public hall c. (1) a usually large public cabin on a ship (as for dining) (2) the living area on a yacht d. chiefly British salon 4 e. barroom 2. salon 2 3. British a. parlor car b. sedan 2a — called also saloon car

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a a large room or hall, esp. in a hotel or public building. b a public room or gallery for a specified purpose (billiard-saloon; shooting-saloon). 2 (in full saloon car) a motor car with a closed body and no partition behind the driver. 3 a public room on a ship. 4 US a drinking-bar. 5 (in full saloon bar) Brit. the more comfortable bar in a public house. 6 (in full saloon car) Brit. a luxurious railway carriage serving as a lounge etc. Phrases and idioms: saloon deck a deck for passengers using the saloon. saloon-keeper US a publican or bartender. saloon pistol (or rifle) a pistol or rifle adapted for short-range practice in a shooting-saloon. Etymology: F salon f. It. salone augment. of sala hall

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Saloon Sa*loon" (s[.a]*l[=oo]n"), n. [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. s[ae]l, sele, D. zaal, Icel. salr, Goth. saljan to dwell, and probably to L. solum ground. Cf. Sole of the foot, Soil ground, earth.] 1. 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. The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm . . . gave banquets and balls. --Macaulay. 2. Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon. We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [at Athens.] --J. P. Mahaffy.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(saloons) 1. A saloon or a saloon car is a car with seats for four or more people, a fixed roof, and a boot that is separated from the rear seats. (BRIT; in AM, use sedan) N-COUNT 2. A saloon is a place where alcoholic drinks are sold and drunk. (AM) = bar N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Spacious room, reception room.

Moby Thesaurus

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