Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A room in a private residence intended for general social and leisure activities. Also called front room.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A room for general family use; a sitting-room. Also called in New England keeping-room.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A room in a house used by all or most of the family, where the family entertain guests or relax together for leisure activities. It usually contains at least one couch, and does not contain a dining table.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
  2. n. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax

Examples

  • “One night as I sat drinking a cold beer on my long living room couch with Donna Sheffield, my young “assistant” at Blackboard College, I heard a car pull up at the curb in front of the house where I was staying on College Avenue.”

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  • “The whole time she's telling me this, I can see some little girl behind her in the living room waiting on her accordion lesson, waiting to learn "Blow the Man Down" or "Greensleeves.”

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  • “One of them broke awhile back, so this afternoon I replaced them with traditional living room lamps.”

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  • “He moved his blankets to the living room couch, curled into them, left me the cot to die in, but I didn't.”

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  • “My father is agitated and excited at first, running up and down the stairs from the living room back down to the basement, claiming that he needs to “fax some insurance papers to Medicare.””

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  • “That is just awesome! paper thin flexible lcd display. disposable televisions. roll it out on the wall of your living room and paste it into place with double side tape. unroll it from pocket and watch the news on the subway. portable led paper. can't wait for the japanese to create application for it.”

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  • “Fifty-one-year-old Karen Pizon was found shot in the torso Thursday on the living room floor of the single-family home in Staten Island.”

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  • “David took Lulu's hand and pulled her away from the men and machines, back into the study adjacent to the sprawling living room of the estate house.”

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  • “Last month, Apple gave its digital living room gadget more bang for the buck, knocking $100 off its 160 GB Apple TV, to $229, and killing off its smaller version.”

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  • Prolagus Alors quoi, on va coucher dehors
    Sous les ponts, sous des ponts d'or
    Que d'autres auront construits pour aller de leur cuisine
    A leur living...

    Leur living room
    C'est pas du flan, c'est pas du vent
    C'est le living room des vieux singes savants
    Living, living, living, living room...


    (Living room, by Paris Combo) Nov 12, 2008

‘living room’ has been looked up 682 times, added to 4 lists, commented on 1 time, and is not a valid Scrabble word.