lounge
The definition of a lounge is an area in a public place such as a hotel, airport or club, where you can sit, wait and relax.
(noun)- A comfortable room in an airport where first class passengers go to wait for their flights is an example of the First Class lounge.
- A room off the lobby in a hotel where people can go and relax and listen to music and drink a drink is an example of a lounge.
To lounge is defined as to lay around or sit around in some kind of comfortable couch or chair.
(verb)When you lay stretched out on the couch and relax, this is an example of a time when you lounge on the couch.
See lounge in Webster's New World College Dictionary
intransitive verb lounged, lounging
- to stand, move, sit, lie, etc. in a relaxed or lazy way; loll
- to spend time in idleness: they lounge around on street corners, wasting their lives
Origin: 15th-c. Scot dial. < ? lungis, laggard, lout < OFr longis < L Longinus, apocryphal name of soldier who lanced Jesus in the side: sense infl. in OFr by assoc. with longe, long, slow < L longus, long
transitive verb
noun
- an act or time of lounging
- Archaic a lounging gait or stroll
- a room, as in a hotel or theater, where guests or patrons may go to relax, socialize, smoke, etc.
- cocktail lounge
- a couch or sofa, esp. a backless one with a headrest at one end
Related Forms:
- lounger noun
See lounge in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb lounged lounged, loung·ing, loung·es verb, intransitive
- To move or act in a lazy, relaxed way; loll: lounging on the sofa; lounged around in pajamas.
- To pass time idly: lounged in Venice till June.
- A public waiting room, as in a hotel or an air terminal, often having smoking or lavatory facilities.
- A cocktail lounge.
- a. A living room.b. A lobby.
- A long couch, especially one having no back and a headrest at one end.
Origin:
Origin: Possibly from French s'allonger, to stretch out
Origin: , from Old French alongier, to lengthen
Origin: , from Medieval Latin allongāre
Origin: : Latin ad-, ad-
Origin: + Latin longus, long; see long1
.Related Forms:
- loungˈer noun
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