# lounge
## English
### Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from French s’allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer (“to walk along”). Compare also German lungern (“to hang or lounge around, linger”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laʊnd͡ʒ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʊnd͡ʒ
* (Hong Kong) IPA: /laʊnd͡ʒ/, (proscribed) /lɔnd͡ʒ/

### Verb

lounge (third-person singular simple present lounges, present participle lounging, simple past and past participle lounged)
* (intransitive) To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
    We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas.
** 1854, J. Hannay, Singleton Fontenoy, R.N:We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.
** 1993, “Loungin'”, in Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1, performed by Guru ft. Donald Byrd:Everybody knows they have times when they wanna just lay back / Kick their feet up, y'know / Listen to some good music and just lounge / That's right, I said lounge
** 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
* To walk or go in a leisurely manner.
** 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 287:When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.
** 2023 August 24, Pauline Lester, Marjorie Dean College Sophomore, BoD - Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 47:As she lounged past Leila's car she cast an insolent glance at the Irish girl.

#### Translations
### Noun

lounge (plural lounges)
* (now rare) A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
** 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 196:He […] prevailed on Captain Musgrave to introduce him to a family, where he supposed he might find a monstrous good lounge for the rest of the time he was to be quartered in the neighbourhood.
** 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies.
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 16:One morning she accompanied Madame de Soissons to the fair, then the favourite lounge and amusement. The Comtesse bought every trifle that caught her eye, while Francesca looked on.
** (Australia) A couch.
* The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
** 1849, The Knickerbocker, volume 33, page 198:That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.
* (British) The living room or sitting room of a house.
** 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 18, in The Subtle Minotaur‎:The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
* A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
* A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
* An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.

#### Synonyms

* (living room): loungeroom (Australia), sitting room (Britain), parlour
* (pub): See also Thesaurus:pub

#### Descendants

* German: Lounge
* Japanese: ラウンジ (raunji)
* Korean: 라운지 (raunji)
* Swedish: lounge

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* airport lounge
* banana lounge
* chaise lounge
* champagne lounge
* cocktail lounge
* departure lounge
* KTV lounge
* ladies' lounge
* liquor lounge
* lounge bag
* lounge car
* lounge chair
* lounge-diner
* lounge diner
* lounge-goer
* lounge-lizard
* lounge lizard
* lounge music
* lounge room
* lounge shirt
* lounge singer
* lounge suit
* sewing lounge
* sky lounge
* sun lounge
* transit lounge
* ultra-lounge
* ultra lounge
* VIP lounge

### Anagrams

* lugeon

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English lounge.

### Noun

lounge m (definite singular loungen, indefinite plural lounger, definite plural loungene)
* a lounge (usually in a hotel, airport or ship)

### References

* “lounge” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Spanish
### Noun

lounge m (plural lounges or lounge)
* lounge

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

lo +‎ unge

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²luː.ɵŋɛ/

#### Noun

lounge c
* A lynx cub.

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lounge.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /¹laʊndʂ/

#### Noun

lounge c
* A lounge, a waiting room.

##### Declension
### References

* lounge in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* lounge in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* lounge in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)