A salon is a place where people have their hair cut or coloured, or have beauty treatments.
...a new hair salon.
...a beauty salon.
Synonyms: shop, store, establishment, parlour More Synonyms of salon
2. countable noun
A salon is a shop where smart, expensive clothes are sold.
3. countable noun
A salon is an informal meeting of fashionable writers or artists, which is held at the house of someone who is well-known. Salons were more common in former times.
His apartment was the most famous literary salon in Russia.
Synonyms: sitting room [British], lounge, living room, parlour [old-fashioned] More Synonyms of salon
4. countable noun
A salon is a sitting room in a large, grand house.
salon in British English
(ˈsælɒn)
noun
1.
a room in a large house in which guests are received
2.
an assembly of guests in a fashionable household, esp a gathering of major literary, artistic, and political figures from the 17th to the early 20th centuries
3.
a commercial establishment in which hairdressers, beauticians, etc, carry on their businesses
beauty salon
4.
a.
a hall for exhibiting works of art
b.
such an exhibition, esp one showing the work of living artists
Word origin
C18: from French, from Italian salone, augmented form of sala hall, of Germanic origin; compare Old English sele hall, Old High German sal, Old Norse salr hall
salon in American English
(səˈlɑn; ˈsælˌɑn; French saˈlɔ̃̃)
noun
1.
a large reception hall or social room, as in a hotel or on a ship; saloon
2.
a drawing room of a private home in French-speaking countries
3.
a regular gathering of distinguished guests such as might meet in a drawing room; esp., a meeting of literary or artistic people in a celebrity'shome
4.
a.
a room or gallery for the exhibition of works of art
b.
such an exhibition, esp. one held annually
5.
a shop or business establishment specially furnished for performing some personal service; parlor
beauty salon
Word origin
Fr: see saloon
Examples of 'salon' in a sentence
salon
Her father sold medical equipment and her mother owned a beauty salon.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Copies of it became a fixture in the fashionable salons of that era.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The smarter literary salons provide meeting places and talking points.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Staff at a beauty salon used a fire extinguisher and fire blanket to put out the flames and called an ambulance.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There is also a fully equipped gym, beauty spa and hair salon.
The Sun (2011)
The contestants all had sponsors, and most were local modelling agencies or hair salons.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
There are no shops, certainly no beauty salons and no mobile phone signal.
The Sun (2011)
Facilities include three pools, a gym and beauty salon.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
I built a salon in the house and went back to work.
The Sun (2007)
It isn't only hair salons.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Home beauty treatments are the perfect guilt-free way to indulge in a little pampering without the price tag of an expensive salon.
The Sun (2012)
So I was marched to a family friend who ran a hair salon from her front room.
The Sun (2012)
Why does he avoid the glitz of London's literary salons?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They have already trialled the idea and are set to open two large salons in Leicester and Chesterfield.
The Sun (2011)
The message delivered, he strolled across the grand salon as the 70 men in dark suits scurried at his heels.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Up to now, there's been no way round it without forking out a fortune on expensive salon or laser treatments.
The Sun (2013)
A number of impressive literary salons have come to life there, courting some of the biggest names in English literature.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In other languages
salon
British English: salon NOUN
A salon is a place where people have their hair cut or coloured, or have beauty treatments.
...a new hair salon.
American English: salon
Brazilian Portuguese: salão (de cabeleireiro)
Chinese: 美发厅
European Spanish: salón de peluqiería y estética
French: salon
German: Salon
Italian: salone
Japanese: 美容院
Korean: 미용실
European Portuguese: salão (de cabeleireiro)
Latin American Spanish: salón de peluquería y estética
All related terms of 'salon'
hair salon
a person whose business is cutting , curling , colouring , and arranging hair, esp that of women
salon music
light classical music intended esp for domestic entertaining
beauty salon
A beauty salon is the same as a → beauty parlour .
hairdressing salon
→ another name for a hairdresser (sense 2 ) ⇒ ⇒ Gloria runs a hairdressing salon.
hairdresser's salon
a person whose business is cutting, curling , colouring , and arranging hair, esp that of women
Chinese translation of 'salon'
salon
(ˈsælɔn)
n(c)
(also hairdressing salon) 发(髮)廊 (fàláng) (家, jiā)
(also beauty salon) 美容院 (měiróngyuàn) (家, jiā)
1 (noun)
Definition
a commercial establishment in which hairdressers or fashion designers carry on their business
a beauty salon
Synonyms
shop
It's not available in the shops.
store
The company owns two stores in Manchester.
establishment
parlour
a funeral parlour
boutique
2 (noun)
Definition
an elegant room in a large house in which guests are received
His apartment was the most famous literary salon in Russia.
Synonyms
sitting room (British)
I went into the sitting room and turned on the television.
lounge
They sat before a roaring fire in the lounge.
living room
We were sitting in the living room watching TV.
parlour (old-fashioned)
The guests were shown into the parlour.
drawing room
front room
reception room
morning room
Additional synonyms
in the sense of living room
Definition
a room in a private house or flat used for relaxation and entertainment