- (also saloon car)(both British English)(North American English sedan)
a car with a boot (= space at the back for carrying things) that is separated from the part where the driver and passengers sit 小轎車;(三廂)四門轎車 a five-seater family saloon 五座家庭式轎車 a four-door saloon 一輛四門大轎車
- (also saloon bar)(also lounge bar)(all British English)
a bar in a pub, hotel, etc. that is more comfortable than the other bars and where the drinks are usually more expensive 轎車: 酒吧,旅館等中的酒吧,比其他酒吧更舒適,且飲料通常更貴 a bar where alcoholic drinks were sold in the western US and Canada in the past (舊時美國西部和加拿大的)酒吧,酒館 The cowboy died in a fight in a saloon. 這個牛仔在酒館的一次鬥毆中喪生。 There were sawdust-on-the-floor Western saloons with gunfights and poker games. 有鋪着鋸屑的西式沙龍,有槍戰和撲克遊戲。
a large comfortable room on a ship, used by the passengers to sit and relax in (客輪上的)交誼廳 The saloon on deck B has room for 140 passengers. 乙甲板的休息室可容納140名乘客。
Word Originearly 18th cent. (in the sense ‘drawing room’): from French salon, from Italian salone ‘large hall’, augmentative of sala ‘hall’.