salon
UK/ˈsælɒn//səˈlɑn/
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salon noun: a large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
Noun
salon (plural salons)
- A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
- Synonyms:
- hall, lounge, parlor, guest room
- A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
- An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
- 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.1933, Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
- A beauty salon or similar establishment.
salon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
salon in Hindi
- large room
- सैलून sailūn, सलोन salon
salon in Tamil
- கூடம்
salon in Marathi
- सलून, सेलून, सॅलोन
salon in Urdu
- سیلون
More languagesFewer languages
- salon in Bengali
- বৈঠকখানা
- salon in Telugu
- సెలూన్
- salon in Malayalam
- കേശസംസ്കാരം ചെയ്യന്നസ്ഥലം, ബാർബർഷാപ്പ്, ബ്യൂട്ടിപാർലർ, ക്ഷുരകശാല
- salon in Kannada
- ದಿವಾನಖಾನೆ, ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಿತರ ಸಭೆ, ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳ ಸಂತೋಷ ಕೂಟ, ಗೋಷ್ಠಿ
- salon in Punjabi
- ਸੈਲੂਨ, ਸਲੂਨ
- salon in Gujarati
- સલૂન, સલુન
- salon in Odia
- ସେଲୁନ୍, ସେଲୁନ
- salon in Nepali
- सेलुन, सलुन, सैलुन
- salon in Arabic
- صَالُون ṣālūn, صَالَة ṣāla, قَاعَة qāʕa
- salon in Indonesian
- salon
Examples of salon in a sentence
- She looks great with that bump Kelly gave her at the salon.
- Melinda has the best chair in the salon.
- I went into the salon to get a clip.
Synonyms of salon
Forms of salon
| plural | salons |
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Origin of 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.
Words formed from salon
Phrases with salon
Words that rhyme with salon
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mon
- qanon
- scone
- swan
- thereupon
- tick on
- wan
- a ton
- chignon
- con
- electron
- got it going on
- jupon
- ron
- soupçon
- thereon
- Toulon
- whereupon
- Yonne
- -hon
- -plon
- agone
- begone
- bent on
- build on
- build upon
- c'mon
- catch oneself on
- chron
- cock on
- Comecon
- conn
- cop oneself on
- Gabon
- garçon
- hither and yon
- hon
- macron
- microraion
- mont
- Perpignan
- phon
- pon
- raion
- shone
- sine qua non
- sine quibus non
- Sir John
Questions about salon
- What does salon mean?
- Salon means a large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
- What is salon in Hindi?
- Salon in Hindi is सैलून (sailūn), सलोन (salon). See Salon meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is salon?
- Salon is a noun.
- How do you pronounce salon?
- Salon is pronounced /ˈsælɒn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of salon?
- The plural of salon is salons.
Words near salon in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: salon (page history and authors); salon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); salon (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); salon (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); salon (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); salon (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); salon (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); salon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); salon (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); salon (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); salon (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); salon (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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