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Lounge

//laʊnd͡ʒ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease. archaic

    "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."

  2. 2
    a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait wordnet
  3. 3
    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. Australia, archaic
  4. 4
    an upholstered seat for more than one person wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.

    "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."

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  1. 6
    A room of a house for casual relaxing and entertaining. British, especially

    "Near-synonyms: den, living room, sitting room, parlour, parlor, rec room"

  2. 7
    A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
  3. 8
    A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
  4. 9
    An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.

    "Near-synonyms: bar, pub, divan; see also Thesaurus:pub"

Verb
  1. 1
    To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner. intransitive

    "We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas."

  2. 2
    sit or recline comfortably wordnet
  3. 3
    To walk or go in a leisurely manner.

    "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."

  4. 4
    be about a place without any apparent purpose wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

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