## Meanings
1. A bar or public place where alcoholic drinks are served, especially in the American Old West.
2. A car with a separate boot and seating for four or more passengers.

## Examples
- The cowboys gathered in the saloon after a long day on the trail.
- They traded in the old hatchback for a comfortable family saloon.

## Derived Forms
- antisaloon
- saloonatic
- saloonist
- saloonkeeper
- saloonkeeping
- saloonless
- saloonlike

## Related Forms
- salon

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

## Etymology
From Occitan salon, French salon, either augmentative of salle (“room”), or borrowed from Italian salone (“hall”), augmentative form of sala, salla (“room”); in both cases borrowed from a Germanic source such as Old High German sal (“house, hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą, from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“dwelling”). Doublet of salon.

## AI Etymology
Saloon is from Occitan salon, French salon, either augmentative of salle (“room”), or borrowed from Italian salone (“hall”), augmentative form of sala, salla (“room”); in both cases borrowed from a Germanic source such as Old High German sal (“house, hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą, from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“dwelling”). Doublet of salon. Important historical forms include oc salon, French salon, Italian salone, Proto-Germanic *salą, and Proto-Indo-European *sel-. In present-day use, it can mean a bar or public place where alcoholic drinks are served, especially in the American Old West, or a car with a separate boot and seating for four or more passengers.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction
- Places & Geography

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