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Saloon   /səlˈun/   Listen
Saloon

noun
1.
A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.  Synonyms: bar, barroom, ginmill, taproom.
2.
Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals.  Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, taphouse.
3.
A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.  Synonym: sedan.



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"Saloon" Quotes from Famous Books



... Emmet, now thoroughly aroused; "but it is n't. It's hard work to talk against money, and they 've got barrels of it. They 're putting it now where it will do the most good. A thousand dollars to this saloon-keeper and another thousand to that, to keep their heelers away from the polls on election day, may do the trick for them, no matter what I say or do or am. And it's college-bred men, professional men, who are doing it. The whole of the wealthy and educated element of Warwick is leagued against ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins

... of November, I felt on awakening that the Nautilus was perfectly still. I dressed quickly and entered the saloon. Captain Nemo was there, waiting for me. He rose, bowed, and asked me if it was convenient for me to accompany him. I simply replied that my companions and myself ...
— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various

... shoes; or as if she had come into possession of the enchanted piece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, at a wish, into a palatial saloon with which ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... Procuratessa led the company to the circular saloon which, as in most villas of the Venetian mainland, formed the central point of the house. If Odo had been charmed by the graceful decorations of the theatre, he was dazzled by the airy splendour of this apartment. Dance-music was pouring from the arched recesses above the doorways, ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton

... on him because he was poor. Pango, Pedro, and the two Sou'wegians only wanted a big drunk. Old man Sullivan wanted a course in a Nautical School and a first mate's certificate. The three Germans wanted to get to New York and set up in the saloon business. Gleason wanted to study law, and I wanted to study medicine and be a doctor, a gentleman who could enter any society in the world. The Jap ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson


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