lounge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from French s'allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer (“to walk along”). Compare also German lungern (“to hang or lounge around, linger”).
Inflected forms:
form: lounges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lounging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lounged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lounged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lounges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas.
We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.
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
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.
gloss: To walk or go in a leisurely manner.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
As she lounged past Leila's car she cast an insolent glance at the Irish girl.
gloss: A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies.
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.
gloss: A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
archaic
gloss: The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A room of a house for casual relaxing and entertaining.
pos: noun
tags: UK
especially
examples: Near-synonyms: den, living room, sitting room, parlour, parlor, rec room
Let's go hang out in the lounge.
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.
gloss: A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
pos: noun
gloss: A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
pos: noun
gloss: An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: bar, pub, divan; see also Thesaurus:pub
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: oleskelutila
lang: German
word: Foyer
lang: German
word: Gesellschaftsraum
lang: German
word: Aufenthaltsraum
lang: Indonesian
word: pengasoan