saloon
noun /səˈluːn/
/səˈluːn/
enlarge image(also saloon car)(both British English)(North American English sedan)a car with a boot (= space at the back for carrying things) that is separated from the part where the driver and passengers sit- a five-seater family saloon
- a four-door saloon
- (also saloon bar)(also lounge bar)(all British English) a bar in a pub, hotel, etc. that is more comfortable than the other bars and where the drinks are usually more expensive
- a bar where alcoholic drinks were sold in the western US and Canada in the past
- The cowboy died in a fight in a saloon.
- There were sawdust-on-the-floor Western saloons with gunfights and poker games.
- a large comfortable room on a ship, used by the passengers to sit and relax in
- The saloon on deck B has room for 140 passengers.
Word Originearly 18th cent. (in the sense ‘drawing room’): from French salon, from Italian salone ‘large hall’, augmentative of sala ‘hall’.