lounge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊnd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɔɲdʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /lawɲdʒ/
ipa: /laʊnd͡ʒ/
ipa: /lɔnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -aʊndʒ
Forms: form: lounges
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”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 196:
text: Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
glosses: A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
A couch.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1849, The Knickerbocker, volume 33, page 198:
glosses: The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
examples: text: Let us adjourn to the lounge.
text: 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.
ref: 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 18, in The Subtle Minotaur:
glosses: The living room or sitting room of a house.
glosses: A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
glosses: A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
glosses: An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
Synonyms: sense: living room
word: loungeroom
sense: living room
word: sitting room
sense: living room
word: parlour
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lounge
word: airport lounge
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word: banana lounge
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word: chaise lounge
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word: champagne lounge
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word: cocktail lounge
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word: departure lounge
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word: headless lounge
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word: KTV lounge
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word: ladies' lounge
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word: liquor lounge
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word: lounge bag
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word: lounge car
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word: lounge chair
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word: loungecore
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word: lounge diner
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word: lounge-diner
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word: lounge-goer
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word: loungelike
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word: lounge-lizard
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word: lounge lizard
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word: lounge music
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word: lounge room
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word: lounge shirt
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word: lounge singer
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word: lounge suit
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word: loungewear
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word: loungingly
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word: loungy
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word: sewing lounge
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word: sky lounge
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word: sun lounge
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word: transit lounge
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word: ultra-lounge
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word: ultra lounge
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word: VIP lounge