salon

B2 Topic:Places & Geography

US /səˈlɑn/ UK /ˈsælɒn/ See IPA manual

Freq #7178

Meanings

1

noun
A place where people go to have their hair or beauty treatments done.

She booked an appointment at the salon to get her hair cut.
2

noun
An elegant room used for receiving and entertaining guests.

Guests gathered in the grand salon before dinner.
3

noun
A regular gathering of people for social or intellectual conversation.

The writer hosted a weekly salon where artists discussed ideas.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a place where people go to... beauty parlorbeauty parlourbeauty salonbeauty shop

2 noun · an elegant room used for... hall lounge parlor

3 noun · a regular gathering of... circle

Word family

Forms salons

Derived forms cybersalonsalonfulsalonicalsalonlike

Related forms cabinet

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beauty salon
a business providing hair care and other beauty treatments

Noun + noun

Etymology

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.

salone Italian sala lng *salą Proto-Germanic *sel- Proto-Indo-European

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# salon

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /səˈlɑn/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈsælɒn/
**Frequency rank:** 7178

## Meanings
1. A place where people go to have their hair or beauty treatments done.
2. An elegant room used for receiving and entertaining guests.
3. A regular gathering of people for social or intellectual conversation.

## Examples
- She booked an appointment at the salon to get her hair cut.
- Guests gathered in the grand salon before dinner.
- The writer hosted a weekly salon where artists discussed ideas.

## Derived Forms
- cybersalon
- salonful
- salonical
- salonlike

## Related Forms
- cabinet

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: salone
- Root: sala
- Root: *salą
- Root: *sel-

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Salon is 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. Modern senses include a place where people go to have their hair or beauty treatments done. and an elegant room used for receiving and entertaining guests.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as cybersalon, salonful, salonical, and salonlike and related forms such as cabinet.

## Topics
- Places & Geography

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