Definitions for salon

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salon sa·lon

Spelling: [suh-lon; French sa-law

IPA: /səˈlɒn; French saˈlɔ̃/

Salon is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in salon (alnos).

Definitions for salon

noun

1. a drawing room or reception room in a large house.
2. an assembly of guests in such a room, especially an assembly, common during the 17th and 18th centuries, consisting of the leaders in society, art, politics, etc.
3. a hall or place used for the exhibition of works of art.
4. a shop, business, or department of a store offering a specific product or service, especially one catering to a fashionable clientele:
5. (initial capital letter) the Salon, an annual exhibition of works of art by living artists, originally held at the Salon d'Apollon: it became, during the 19th century, the focal point of artistic controversy and was identified with academicism and official hostility to progress in art. a national exhibition of works of art by living artists:

Origin of salon

1705-15; French Italian salone, equivalent to sal(a) hall (Germanic; compare Old English sæl, Old Saxon seli, German Saal, Old Norse salr) + -one augmentative suffix

Examples for salon

Jenny Kutner, a 23-year-old writer for salon, talked about her abortion after an IUD failure.

The other Twitter topic you are well known for is the topic of salon.

And at last she went off attended by a maid who had waited for her in the first salon.

The idea to invest in their own hair company came from Miko after seeing how clients at their salon responded to her natural hair.

The Chief came in from the salon, and sat down at the table.

This occurred in the room that is now called the "salon d'Apollon."

I had it moulded and sent to the salon , where it met with genuine success.

Let's all pledge ourselves to send in to the salon—or anyway to the Indpendants!

I ask him a question about his rumored one-night stand with salon reporter Tracy Clark-Flory.

Mary Elizabeth Williams of salon labels the show a “crass stunt” on a “bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network.”