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Definition: Saloon |
SaloonNoun1. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter. 2. (British) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "saloon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
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Transportation | An extra-fare railroad passenger carriage car for day travel equipped with individual revolving and reclining chairs and providing the services of an attendant. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Saloon can mean:
- Any bar, especially in the American "Wild West."
- The best part of a British pub, which is also called the snug.
- In Britain an enclosed four-to-six seat car without a hatchback, or sedan.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Saloon."
Synonyms: SaloonSynonyms: bar (n), barroom (n), gin mill (n), ginmill (n), pothouse (n), pub (n), public house (n), taphouse (n), taproom (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse. |
Receptacle | Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Saloon |
| English words defined with "saloon": batwing, bucket shop ♦ saloon keeper, sawdust saloon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "saloon": story. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Saloon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (saloon), German (saloon), Italian (saloon), Manx (saloon ). |
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Screenplays | He should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend (Unforgiven; writing credit: David Webb Peoples.) This is a saloon. (Annie Oakley; writing credit: Joseph Fields; Ewart Adamson) You didn't tell me you owned a saloon. (Silverado; writing credit: Lawrence Kasdan; Mark Kasdan) Now I've got two sons working nights in a saloon. (The Waltons; writing credit: Theodore Apstein) In the saloon when Joe shot him. (Support Your Local Sheriff!; writing credit: William Bowers) | |
Lyrics | At an old saloon on a street of mud, (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) | |
Clever | Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Les Filles du Golden Saloon (1973) Saloon Bar (1940) Carrie Nation Smashing a Saloon (1901) Kansas Saloon Smashers (1901) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Red Dog Saloon. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The Salty Dawg Saloon, a landmark at Homer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | All night the Liberta quivered under the feet of Cammarillo's fighting men. They swarmed up the sides and spread themselves over the decks, the cabins, the saloon and the rigging. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Grand Saloon, Hoffman House, N.Y. Finest saloon in the world / photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fort Monroe, Va. Captain of the Port's office and the Hygeia Dining Saloon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. Solace, main saloon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | S.S. Deutschland, dining saloon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Town Hall and "Soapy Smith's" saloon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Saloon. Omaha, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Saturday night in a saloon. Craigville, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Thomas Hood | My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The rest of the Saloon had been cleared of furniture, to make room for the guests |
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Business | Chrysler has reestablished its presence in the U.K. and the rest of Europe through its right hand four-wheel drive Jeep, its Voyager MPV and its Neon saloon. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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| "Saloon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Saloon" is used about 510 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 510 | 11,877 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Austins Steaks & Saloon, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "saloon": beauty saloon ♦ billiard saloon ♦ dining saloon ♦ hairdressing saloon ♦ saloon bar ♦ saloon car ♦ saloon carriage ♦ saloon coach ♦ saloon deck ♦ saloon keeper ♦ saloon passenger ♦ saloon stewardess ♦ sawdust saloon ♦ sleeping saloon. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "saloon": saloon-bar, saloon-bars, saloon-in-space, saloon-keeper, saloon-pistol, saloon-singer, saloon-wise. | |
Ending with "saloon": anti-saloon, performance-saloon, sun-saloon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "saloon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sallon (drawing room, hall, hallway, parlor, parlour, porch, salon, sitting room), sallë (assembly room, auditorium, hall, house, room, school, theater, theatre, ward), veturë (car, coach, machine, motor, motor car, saloon car, saloon carriage, tin lizzie, touring-car, waggon, wagon), vagon-sallon, birrari (alehouse, beerhouse, gin mill, gin-shop, hotel, mug-house, pub, tap house, taproom), bar (bar, brasserie, cure, drug, gin mill, grass, herb, herbage, local, medicament, medicine, pasturage, pasture, physic, pub). (various references) | |
Arabic | حانة (bar, barroom, bush, cabaret, inn, pub, tavern), سيارة صالون, عربة قطار (car, coach), صالون أدبي (salon), صالة كبيرة (auditorium, hall), خمارة (pub, tavern). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | салон-вагон, салон (auditorium, hall, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon), кръчма (alehouse, bodega, boozer, cabaret, cantiniere, gin mill, gin-shop, grog-shop, house, inn, pub, public, public house, tavern, wine vault, wineshop), вид голям закрит автомобил, бар (bar, cafй), пивница (alehouse, cantina, dram-shop, drinking place, porterhouse, pub, public house, wineshop). (various references) | |
Chinese | 交谊厅. (various references) | |
Czech | spoleèenská místnost (common room), sál (auditorium, court, hall, house, lounge), hospoda (pub). (various references) | |
Danish | sedan, salonvogn (de luxe coach, parlor car, Pullmann car, saloon car, saloon coach), personvogn (coach). (various references) | |
Dutch | sedan, salonrijtuig (parlor car, saloon car, saloon coach), Pullmanrijtuig (parlor car, saloon car, saloon coach). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشروبفروشی (Salon), سالن زیباءی (Salon), رستوران (Buffet, Cafe, Restaurant, Salon, Teashop). (various references) | |
Finnish | salonki (drawing-room, salon), umpivaunu (closed motor car), kapakka (pub, restaurant). (various references) | |
French | berline. (various references) | |
German | Kneipe (bar, barrel house, boozer, café, joint, pub, tavern), Salon (drawing room, exhibition stand, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon, sitting-room), Limousine (hardtop, limo, limousine, saloon car, sedan). (various references) | |
Greek | όχημα-σαλόνι (parlor car, saloon car, saloon coach), σαλόνι πλοίου, ποτοπωλείο (bar, liquor store), ποτοπολείο (barroom, taproom). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכו ית ס'ור" (saloon car), מסבא" (alehouse, bar, brasserie, pub, public house, taproom, tavern), אולם (auditorium, aula, but, hall, however, nevertheless, parlour, vestibule, yet), בית מרזח (pub, tavern). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szalon (drawing room, parlor, parlour, salon, spare room), díszterem (ceremonial hall, salon, state room), vasúti termes kocsi, söntés (bar, pub, tap, tap house, taproom), nagyterem, luxuskocsi (saloon-car, sedan), kocsma (alehouse, boozer, dram-shop, grocery, jerry, jerry shop, jerry-shop, pot house, pub, public house, shades, tavern), italmérés (bar), italbolt (bar, pub). (various references) | |
Italian | salone (hall, lounge, salon), berlina (Berlin, hardtop, limousine, pillory, saloon car, sedan). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 飲屋 (bar), 飲み屋 (bar), 飮屋 (bar), 飮み屋 (bar), 飮み屋 (bar), 広" (guest room, hall, spacious room), サリチル酸メチル (methyl salicylate, sage, salsa, Salvarsan, salvia, sarcoidosis, Sarin, sulfadiazine, sultan, thalidomide, thalidomide baby). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひろま (guest room, hall, spacious room), のみや (bar, bookmaker), サルーン . (various references) | |
Korean | 집. (various references) | |
Manx | thie oast (boozer, dram shop, hotel, inn, licensed house, pub, public house, tavern), saloon, halley (auditorium, hall, lounge), cabbane (cab, cabin, cage in lift, deck house, flight deck, house, tabernacle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aloonsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | salão (hall, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon), sala grande (salon), carruagem-salão (parlor car, saloon car, saloon coach), carruagem "Pullman" (parlor car, saloon car, saloon coach), bar (barroom, dram-shop, pub, public house, shebang, tap-house), automóvel coberto (salon). (various references) | |
Romanian | salon (drawing room, hall, house-place, keeping room, lounge, parlour, salon, show room, sitting room, sitting-room, state room), salã (audience, chamber, hall, house, room, theater, theatre), vagon-salon (parlour car), limuzinã (limousine, sedan), cârciumã (ale-house, bar, crib, drinking house, gin-shop, grogshop, ordinary, peg house, porter house, pot house, pub, public house, taproom, tavern). (various references) | |
Russian | седан (sedan, sedan chair), салун, ресторан (restaurant, steak house), зал (common-room, floor of, hall, lounge, parlor, parlour, sala, salle, salon, saloon car, saloon carriage), бар (bar, barroom, dating bar, dram-shop, pub, speakeasy, taproom, tavern, watering hole, wine bar), приемная (anteroom, parlor, parlour, patient reception room, reception room, waiting room). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | limuzina (limousine), krčma (inn, pothouse, public house, taphouse). (various references) | |
Spanish | taberna (bar, inn, local, pub, public house, taproom, tavern, taverna). (various references) | |
Swedish | krog (cabaret, dive, pub, public house, public-house, tavern), bar (bar, bare, bear, cafeteria, carried, carry, cocktail lounge, naked, nude, snack bar, taproom, wear, wore). (various references) | |
Turkish | salon (drawing room, hall, hippodrome, living room, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon, sitting room), meyhane (ale-house, bar, barrel house, boozer, cabaret, gin mill, grogshop, inn, pub, public house, shebang, shebeen, taproom, tavern), lüks salon, bar (ale-house, bar, café, dram-shop, gin mill, grogshop, pub, public, public house, shebang, shebeen, tap, taproom, tavern). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | салун, салон (cabin, salon), шинок (ale-house, cabaret, pub), зал (chamber, hall). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phòng khách lớn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "saloon": saloons. (additional references) | |
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"Saloon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aloon, aslon, Asolo, dalon, Qalaun, Raloo, Saadoun, saalian, Sablon, sabon, saboo, sacon, Sadoko, Sadoo, Sadoon, Safon, saleen, Saliou, Salleron, salloon, salmonoid, salo, Salomom, salomon, salomonic, Salone, salong, Saloom, salsoul, saltoro, salu, saluna, saluo, Salvona, samogon, Saolanum, sarono, savon, sazon, Sazonov, Sellion, selon, Selson, Selvon, Shabonov, shalloon, Silanov, Silenou, sillon, slolon, sloon, solune, soooooo, swallon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "saloon" (pronounced suluw"n) |
| 4 | -u l uw" n | balloon, galloon. |
| 3 | -l uw" n | loon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: solano. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-n-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: loans, loons, nolos, salon, snool, solan, solon. | |
-2 letters: also, loan, loon, loos, naos, nolo, sola, solo, soon. | |
-3 letters: als, las, loo, noo, nos, ons, sal, sol, son. | |
-4 letters: al, an, as, la, lo, na, no, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-n-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: lagoons, saloons, solanos. | |
+2 letters: balloons, bolognas, coolants, coronals, dongolas, galloons, gondolas, isogonal, lampoons, lardoons, moonsail, nonsolar, octanols, ortolans, planosol, platoons, polarons, shalloon, solation, vanpools, volcanos. | |
+3 letters: aloofness, analogous, anomalous, boltonias, canoodles, colonials, colorants, doornails, downloads, erosional, flavonols, golcondas, gonfalons, handlooms, hooligans, isogonals, isolation, linalools, loadstone, loanwords, lobations, locations, longboats, monomials, monorails, monsoonal, moonsails, moonwalks, moorlands, naloxones, napoleons, nonlocals, nonsocial, oblations, oolachans, optionals, palominos, planosols, polonaise, polyzoans, pozzolans, salmonoid, schoolman, shalloons, solations, solonchak, solvation, tonoplast, tonsorial, torsional, vindaloos, volcanoes, woodlands. | |
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