salon

Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), 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 (“island”). Doublet of saloon.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: IPA^(key): /ˈsælɒn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈlɑn/

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• Rhymes: -ɒn

salon (plural salons)

1. A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.

   Synonyms: hall, lounge, parlor, guest room

2. A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.

   Synonyms: circle, cenacle

3. (art) An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
   • 1933, Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas:

     Matisse showed in every autumn salon and every independent. He was beginning to have a considerable following. Picasso, on the contrary, never in all his life has shown in any salon. His pictures at that time could really only be seen at 27 rue de Fleurus.

4. A beauty salon or similar establishment.

• loans, Nosal, Alons, Sơn La, lonas, Sloan, Solan, solan, Nolas, Lonas

• IPA^(key): /saˈlon/ [saˈl̪on̪]
• Hyphenation: sa‧lon

Borrowed from Spanish salón.

salón (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎᜓᜈ᜔) (obsolete)

1. a ballroom; a large room used for dancing and banquets
2. a cabaret

   Synonym: kabaret

Borrowed from English salon.

salón (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎᜓᜈ᜔)

1. a beauty salon

   Synonyms: pabulogan, patusaran, paguntingan, pagupitan

• Hyphenation: sa‧lon

From Spanish salón.

salon

1. (obsolete) a ballroom; a large room used for dancing and banquets

From English salon.

salon

1. a beauty salon

Borrowed from French salon. Doublet of saloon.

• IPA^(key): /saːˈlɔn/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧lon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

salon m or n (plural salons, diminutive salonnetje n)

1. salon, room for receiving guests
2. pub, café or restaurant (often posh or trendy, or in a French context)

• Afrikaans: salon
• → Indonesian: salon
• → Papiamentu: salòn

salon

1. accusative singular of salo

salon

1. genitive singular of salo

salon

1. genitive singular of salko

• solan

Inherited 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 (“island”).

• IPA^(key): /sa.lɔ̃/

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salon m (plural salons)

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

• “salon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Dutch salon.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsalon/ [ˈsa.lɔn]
• Rhymes: -alon
• Syllabification: sa‧lon

salon (plural salon-salon)

1. salon

• “salon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /saˈlon/

salon (plural salones)

1. sitting room, living room

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salon m (plural salons)

1. (Jersey) drawing room

Borrowed from French salon, 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”). Possibly a doublet of sioło.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.lɔn/

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• Rhymes: -alɔn
• Syllabification: sa‧lon

salon m inan (diminutive salonik)

1. living room

   Synonyms: (archaic) bawialka, (archaic) bawialnia

2. any large room
3. service point, shop, store, parlor (used especially for shops in a shopping center)

   Synonym: studio

4. exhibition, show
5. (derogatory, politics, singular only) ruling class, the elite, the establishment

• salon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• salon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French salon.

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salon n (plural saloane)

1. living room
2. salon

From French salon, from Italian salone.

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

sàlōn m inan (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

• “salon”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Ottoman Turkish صالون (salon), from French salon.

• Hyphenation: sa‧lon

salon (definite accusative salonu, plural salonlar)

1. living room
2. shop, store

• (living room): oturma odası

• (shop): güzellik salonu

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صالون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 751
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salon”, in Nişanyan Sözlük