lounge

Etymology

Origin uncertain, possibly from French s'allonger (“to lie down”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laʊndʒ/

Noun

lounge (plural lounges)

1. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
2. A domestic living room.
   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur, chapter 18:

     The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.

3. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
4. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
5. The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
   • 1849, The Knickerbocker (volume 33, page 198)

     That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.

Verb

lounge (third-person singular simple present lounges, present participle lounging, simple past and past participle lounged)

1. To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
   • J. Hannay

     We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• lugeon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːɵŋɛ/

Etymology 1

lo +‎ unge

Noun

lounge c

1. The offspring of a lynx

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lounge.

Noun

lounge c

1. Lounge, waiting room