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# salon

noun (a salon, salons)

«salon» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A salon is a shop where people go to have their hair cut or styled, their nails done or their skin treated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#m1)
2. (old-fashioned, formal) A salon is an elegant sitting room in a big house where guests are received. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#m2)
3. (history) A salon was a meeting of writers, artists and thinkers at a rich person's home, especially in France. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#m3)
4. A salon can be an art exhibition, as in the famous Paris Salon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life it is mostly a hair salon, beauty salon or nail salon. In history lessons it is the place where people talked about books and ideas in the 1700s and 1800s. Phrases: hair salon, beauty salon, nail salon, tanning salon.

### Examples

- Mum has an appointment at the hair salon on Saturday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#x1)
- The salon smelled of shampoo and hair spray. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#x2)
- My big sister works in a nail salon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#x3)
- The guests waited in the grand salon of the palace. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#x4)
- In old Paris, rich women held salons where writers shared ideas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#x5)
- The painting was shown at the Paris Salon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#x6)
- The salon was busy before the school dance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/#x7)

### Note

Plural salons. Stress on the first syllable in UK English (SAL-on), often the second in US English (sa-LON). Do not confuse with «saloon» (an old-style bar in a Western, or a UK word for a car with a separate boot).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «salon» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salon/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«salon» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/salon.html) on Mova free.