lounge

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Your lounge is the focal point in your home, an area where you can relax and chill out, or have a party and entertain guests.

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  1. intransitive verb To move or act in a lazy, relaxed way; loll: lounging on the sofa; lounged around in pajamas.
  2. intransitive verb To pass time idly: lounged in Venice till June.
  3. transitive verb To pass (time) in a lazy, relaxed, or idle way: lounged the day away.
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  • The bartender was beginning to close up and the lounge was almost empty when I came in, trying not to limp. —  The African Quest
  • The only person in the lounge is a man that he doesn't recognize: blond guy, slender, narrow features. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 02 - August 1997
  • Someone calls out over the intercom: "Anyone who speaks French please come to the lounge area" and the request seems tempting, seems so beside the point that it moves me to brush my hair, pick up a magazine and head for the lounge area even though I don't speak French. —  The Informers
  • There was one armchair and a sofa in the room called the lounge, and by the evidence, a crumpled tissue and a paperback lying open on the seat, it was obvious that the other woman had been sitting in the armchair earlier. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 04 - April 1996
  • Opening off the lounge were the two bedrooms, a kitchenette and a shower-room. —  The Death-Cap Dancers - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 59: 1981
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

parlor ·  lobby ·  sofa ·  bathroom ·  bedroom ·  apartment ·  hallway ·  saloon ·  salon ·  cabin ·  armchair ·  suite

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lounge:   lounges ·  lounged ·  lounging
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Possibly from French s'allonger, to stretch out, from Old French alongier, to lengthen, from Medieval Latin allongāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin longus, long; see long1.

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  1. Not found before 1671 (in Skinner); perhaps from the noun lounger, in plural loungers, which is probably a mistaken form, with accommodation termination, of *loungis, from lungis, longis, an idle, drowsy, dreaming fellow: see lungis.
  2. from lounge, v.
 

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