living room

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 

View all »Definitions (3)

American Heritage Dictionary (1)

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

Century Dictionary

View all » Examples

  • The sofa in the living room sagged in the center, its shiny green quilting protected by doilies her mother had crocheted decades ago. —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
  • The MCU had been thorough, taking grisly but informative photos of the living room Bennie set the file down, tore the brown tape from the first box, and began to unpack. —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
  • Half a million bucks under your living room floor. —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
  • I was worried he was in the living room deciding who in my family should be beamed up to the mothership. —  Visions of Sugar Plums
  • They sat at a round, claw-foot, polished oak table, between a cheerful pine kitchen and a living room bursting with gloriously happy plants, tropical-print fabrics, and African sculpture. —  To Play the Fool
 

Stats

Living room has been looked up 64 times, favorited 0 times, listed 3 times, commented on once, and is not a valid Scrabble word.

On Twitter

Photos from

spinner

Etymologies (0)

American Heritage Dictionary

Century Dictionary

GNU Webster's 1913

WordNet

 

Record your own »
Pronunciations

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

Occurrences of the word "living room" per million words:

Chart?cht=lc&chs=300x180&chg=14

Recent Lookups

thruma · bongo · pimping · inane · Healer · Copal · perrius · alignment · uncomforted · fanmail

Recent Favorites

verspertine · silly mid-off · silly mid-on · mid-off · irrecoverably · irretrievably · betwixt · &c. · quiescence · canonical

Recent Pronunciations

Buchanan · Celebąk · Gdansk · syboleth · plesiosaurus · jerkinhead · you're something of a hotdog, aren't you · wobble-om-metry · hypermiling · gendarmes