saloon

[US]/sə'luːn/
[UK]/sə'lun/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.bar or tavern in the old American West and Canada; barroom
luxurious lounge in a hotel
social hall on a passenger ship
sedan; four-door car

Phrases & Collocations

cowboy saloon

saloon car

Example Sentences

I jumped his saloon from my car's battery.

The temperance league wanted to close all the saloons in town.

The patriotics in the saloon bar are delighted in reading those tabloid newspapers taking every oppurtunity hurling their continent neighbors .

There was a largish family saloon (the Fluence), a supermini-sized hatchback (the Zoe), the Kangoo Be Bop ZE and a wacky two-seat urban runabout (the Twizy).

Real-world Examples

I'm sorry, this does not look like Texas. Where's the tumbleweeds? Whe's the saloons?

Source: The Big Bang Theory Season 3

Hair saloons, bars and casinos would close.

Source: VOA Daily Standard December 2020 Collection

Gyms and hair saloons and clothing stores would not.

Source: CNN 10 Student English November 2020 Collection

43.the deck cover in saloon and mess room damaged.

Source: Maritime English listening

Patrick Framas is the manager of the branded saloon restaurant.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

Hay bales, saloon door, maybe a surrey with a fringe on top.

Source: Young Sheldon Season 4

Henry's had been made over from a saloon into a lunch-counter.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

Excuse me, gentlemen. Your business is politics, mine is running a saloon.

Source: Casablanca Original Soundtrack

Ten years or so later I'm in an Irish saloon with Bill Thompson.

Source: Stephen King on Writing

Except for the busy salesman and his companions in the saloon, Yellow Sky was sleeping.

Source: VOA Special March 2019 Collection

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