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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To move or act in a lazy, relaxed way; loll: lounging on the sofa; lounged around in pajamas.
  2. v. To pass time idly: lounged in Venice till June.
  3. v. To pass (time) in a lazy, relaxed, or idle way: lounged the day away.
  4. n. A public waiting room, as in a hotel or an air terminal, often having smoking or lavatory facilities.
  5. n. A cocktail lounge.
  6. n. A living room.
  7. n. A lobby.
  8. n. A long couch, especially one having no back and a headrest at one end.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To act, move, or rest in a lazy or listless manner; move about or do anything with negligence or indifference.
  2. To recline in a lazy attitude; loll: as, to lounge on a sofa.
  3. n. The act of sauntering or strolling; the act of reclining at ease or lolling.
  4. n. A place frequented by idlers.
  5. n. A kind of sofa for reclining, having one arm only and a low back, or no back, so as to be used from either side.
  6. n. A treat; a comfort.
  7. n. An obsolete spelling of lunge.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
  2. n. A domestic living room.
  3. n. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and you are able to sit comfortably as music is being played softly in the background and/or a television program is being displayed .
  4. n. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch. Also a lounge chair.
  5. v. To relax as if in a lounge.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
  2. n. An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.
  3. n. A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. sit or recline comfortably
  2. v. be about
  3. n. an upholstered seat for more than one person
  4. n. a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait

Etymologies

  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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