saloon

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

sal·oon [saloon saloons] BrE [səˈluːn] NAmE [səˈluːn] noun
1. (also saˈloon car) (both BrE) (NAmE sedan)a car with four doors and a ↑boot (= space at the back for carrying things) which is separated from the part where the driver and passengers sit
•a five-seater family saloon
2. (also saˈloon bar) (both BrE) = ↑lounge bar
3. a bar where alcoholic drinks were sold in the western US and Canada in the past
4. a large comfortable room on a ship, used by the passengers to sit and relax in
See also: ↑saloon car ▪ ↑sedan

Word Origin:
early 18th cent. (in the sense ‘drawing room’): from French salon, from Italian salone ‘large hall’, augmentative of sala ‘hall’.

Example Bank:
•The cowboy died in a fight in a saloon.
•There were sawdust-on-the-floor Western saloons with gunfights and poker games.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sedan, public house, pub, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse, barroom, bar, ginmill, taproom