1
: an elegant apartment or living room (as in a fashionable home)
2
: a fashionable assemblage of notables (such as literary figures, artists, or statesmen) held by custom at the home of a prominent person
3
a
: a hall for exhibition of art
b
Salon
: an annual exhibition of works of art
4
: a stylish business establishment or shop
a beauty salon
Examples of salon in a Sentence
at its headquarters the company maintains a fashionable salon filled with works of modern art
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Madeleine Bokan Thares, Glamour, 9 Dec. 2025
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Madeleine Bokan Thares, Glamour, 9 Dec. 2025
In 2009, Reid opened WAH Nails, a trail-blazing London salon that catapulted nail art into the mainstream.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
The story of Gaze of the Flamingo is inspired by the writer-director’s own life experience growing up in the suburbs of Chile’s capital, Santiago, where his family rented a little hair salon and hired gay hairdressers.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Dec. 2025
Its floors are mazes of narrow corridors packed with African clothing stalls, salons, barbers, jewelry stores and halal eateries.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 6 Dec. 2025
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“Salon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salon. Accessed 14 Dec. 2025.
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salon
noun
sa·lon
sə-ˈlän 
ˈsal-ˌän
1
: an apartment or living room of stylish design
2
: a social gathering held in a salon
3
a
: an art gallery
b
: an annual exhibition of art
4
: a stylish business establishment
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