SALOON


Meaning of SALOON in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

luxury

The only people who drive luxury saloons in East Oxford are drug dealers who do karate with their rottweilers to relax.

Mercedes has achieved sports-car adhesion with a comfort many luxury saloon makers would envy.

new

The solution was simple, of course: produce a new family saloon .

Volvo has won a safety award for its innovative integrated child seat fitted to all new 900-series saloons .

David Oates going well in a new saloon car racing class.

■ NOUN

bar

Above the entrance to the saloon bar there is a picture of Shakespeare on the swinging sign.

But the Telegraph was not taking its line from saloon bar advisers.

What the saloon bar lacked in creature comforts it made up for by the complete absence of journos.

Wexford went into the saloon bar .

Meryl didn't want to come - and played darts in the saloon bar .

There was a long silence, such as falls over a saloon bar in a Western at moments of confrontation.

Better the mild academic joke than the jollities of the saloon bar .

car

Albert Honey says: If that had happened to a saloon car full of people from a family.

He had come up through motorcycle racing and saloon cars .

A big saloon car was parked outside the other door with its engine running.

Two minutes in the microwave and you have a full size saloon car ready to drive away.

Right: The Vauxhall Chevette looks what it is: a nippy, small family hatchback saloon car .

David Oates going well in a new saloon car racing class.

It's a new challenge for the ultimate competitor; saloon car racing for the Peugeot team.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But you expect that sort of thing in a literary saloon .

He got a job sweeping out a saloon and was allowed to sleep in the carriage house behind it.

He stopped in several other saloons before he reached Clinton Place.

Miguelito sat at the saloon table.

The town, with a population of more than 2, 000, boasted 18 saloons and 100 mining companies.

Volvo has won a safety award for its innovative integrated child seat fitted to all new 900-series saloons.

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