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Waiting room

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Noun
  1. 1
    A room in a public place for people to wait.

    "In the third place, by its situation it serves only for a waiting-room, and a passage to the principal apartments, instead of being reserved, as it ought to be, for entertaining company […]"

  2. 2
    a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait wordnet

Etymology

From waiting + room. Compare Dutch wachtruimte (“waiting room, waiting area”), German Warterraum (“waiting room”).

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