salon
/səˈlɑn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
noun
An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
noun
A beauty salon or similar establishment.
Example Sentences
- "Matisse showed in every autumn salon and every independent. He was beginning to have a considerable following. Picasso, on the contrary, never in all his life has shown in any salon. His pictures at that time could really only be seen at 27 rue de Fleurus."
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.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /səˈlɑn/
- British English: /ˈsælɒn/
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Phrases
beauty salon
bridal salon
hairdressing salon
hair salon
literary salon
nail salon
pink salon
salon music