saloon

noun
🔊/səˈluːn/
🔊/səˈluːn/
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  1. (also saloon car)
    (both British English)
    (North American English sedan)
    a car with a boot (= space at the back for carrying things) that is separated from the part where the driver and passengers sit小轿车;(三厢)四门轿车
    • a five-seater family saloon五座家庭式轿车
    • a four-door saloon一辆四门大轿车
    Topics Transport by car or lorryc2
  2. (also saloon bar)
    (also lounge bar)
    (all British English) a bar in a pub, hotel, etc. that is more comfortable than the other bars and where the drinks are usually more expensive
  3. a bar where alcoholic drinks were sold in the western US and Canada in the past(旧时美国西部和加拿大的)酒吧,酒馆
    • The cowboy died in a fight in a saloon.这个牛仔在酒馆的一次斗殴中丧生。
    • There were sawdust-on-the-floor Western saloons with gunfights and poker games.地板上有锯末屑的西方轿车,有枪战和扑克游戏。
  4. a large comfortable room on a ship, used by the passengers to sit and relax in(客轮上的)交谊厅
    • The saloon on deck B has room for 140 passengers.B甲板上的轿车可容纳140名乘客。
  5. Word Originearly 18th cent. (in the sense ‘drawing room’): from French salon, from Italian salone ‘large hall’, augmentative of sala ‘hall’.