salon

noun
🔊/ˈsælɒn/
🔊/səˈlɑːn/
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  1. a shop that gives customers hair or beauty treatment or that sells expensive clothes美发厅;美容院;高级服装店
    • a beauty salon美容院
    • a hairdressing salon美发厅
    see also beauty salon
    Extra Examples
    • He now runs his own hairdressing salon in Melbourne.他现在在墨尔本经营自己的美发沙龙。
    • The hotel has just opened a sauna, solarium and beauty salon.酒店刚刚开设了桑拿浴室,日光浴室和美容院。
    Topics Shoppingb2, Appearanceb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • beauty
    • hair
    • hairdressing
    verb + salon
    • go to
    • visit
    See full entry
  2. (old-fashioned) a room in a large house used for entertaining guests(大宅中的)客厅,会客室
  3. (in the past) a regular meeting of writers, artists and other guests at the house of a famous or important person沙龙(旧时作家、艺术家等在名流家中定期举行的聚会)
    • a literary salon文艺沙龙
  4. Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French, from Italian salone ‘large hall’, augmentative of sala ‘hall’.