Lounge

Definition: Lounge

Lounge

Noun

1. An upholstered seat for more than one person.

2. A public room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait.

Verb

1. Sit or recline comfortably; "He was lounging on the sofa".

2. Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lounge" was first used: 1508. (references)

Slang in 1811

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lounge

Inactivity

Verb: be inactive; Adjective: do nothing; move slowly; let the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile.

Receptacle

Portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza.

Crosswords: Lounge

Dutch (lounge).

We keep it in the lounge. (Fawlty Towers; writing credit: John Cleese; Connie Booth)

Colonel Mustard in the lounge with the lead pipe (Big Wolf on Campus; writing credit: Masanao Akahoshi; Kei'ichi Hasegawa)

Room in the local disco lounge (All She Wants to Do Is Dance; performing artist: Don Henley)

He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel (RAISED ON ROBBERY; performing artist: Joni Mitchell)

Lounge Chair (1956)

Eames Lounge Chair (1956)

Teacher's Lounge (2002)

Lava Lounge (2002)

Zebra Lounge (2001)

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Books

• Don't Get Caught in the Teachers' Lounge (Don't Get Caught) (reference)

• Night of the Devil: The Untold Story of Thomas Trantino and the Angel Lounge Killings (reference)

• Shecky's Bar, Club & Lounge Guide 2002: New York City (reference)

• Smash Mouth / Astro Lounge (reference)

• The I. V. Lounge Reader (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge (reference)

• Trees Lounge (reference)

• Zebra Lounge (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Midnight Lounge (reference)

• Pharoah Lounge (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The "Skylab" building which was used as laboratories. There was a lounge on the third floor. An all-sky camera on the roof photographed auroras. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

U. S. Army Camp Hospital No. 40, Liverpool, England. : Lounge room in the Nurses' home. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dr. W.H. Groves Latter-Day Saints Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT. : Visitor's Lounge, private division. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Lounge in ocean liner or steamship. Credit: Library of Congress.

Str. City of Detroit III, Gothic room lounge. Credit: Library of Congress.

Christiansted, St. Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Lounge in the Hotel Penthany. Credit: Library of Congress.

Truck drivers resting in lounge at Amity Hall, Pennsylvania. Truckers' facilities at Amity Hall are, according to the drivers, model accomodations and of a kind not found elsewhere. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pennsylvania Railroad, Jeffersonian, Sunnyside, Long Island City. Lounge car. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lafayette College, Jessie Kirby Dormitory, Easton, Pennsylvania. Lounge. Credit: Library of Congress.

Capitol Radio Engineering Institute. Recreation lounge at Capitol Radio Engineering Institute I. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Men come and go, they chat, they joke, they lounge.

I remembered the story of a conceited fellow, who, in fine clothes, was wont to lounge about the village once, giving advice to workmen

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Business

Frilled hems, Capri pants, Turkish trousers, wide leg trousers, drawstring lounge pants, hipsters, low-slung trousers, one-piece trousers. (references)

Other highlights at Bluewater include a 12-screen Hoyts cinema multiplex with stadium style seating, an evening lounge and numerous bars, outdoor boating and ice skating, cycling, indoor rock climbing and late night entertainment. (references)

The services include a full schedule of one-on-one appointments with key contacts in the market for all U.S. participants; a U.S. pavilion promotional brochure; interpreters and related support services; contacts with the tourism press; a specialized publicity campaign to attract attention to the Pavilion; and a lounge to receive guests. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Upon completion of the renovation, the airport will be equipped with a public hall with more than two dozen state-of-the-art check-in stations, restaurants, shops, duty free shopping, travel services, tour-operators, departure lounges with telescoping jetways for boarding planes, and an improved transit lounge. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "lounge": cocktail lounge ♦ departure lounge ♦ informal lounge ♦ lounge about ♦ lounge around ♦ lounge away ♦ lounge away one's time ♦ lounge bar ♦ lounge car ♦ lounge chair ♦ lounge lizard ♦ lounge suit ♦ lounge suite ♦ mobile lounge ♦ observation lounge ♦ sun lounge ♦ transit lounge. Additional references.

Beginning with "lounge": lounge-bar, lounge-car, lounge-cum-dining, lounge-cum-television, lounge-diner, lounge-lizard, lounge-room, lounge-suited, lounge-you.

Ending with "lounge": bar-lounge, coffee-lounge.

Albanian

sallë pritjeje (presence chamber, reception room, salon, stateroom, vestibule, waiting room), rri kot (fribble, idle, loaf, lounge about), hallavitje, dhomë ndenjieje (living room). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غرفة الجلوس (anteroom, living room), ‏تكاسل (drowse, idle, laze), ‏تسكع (gad about, hang about, hang around, idling, linger, loaf, loiter, meander, mess around, mooch, mosey, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, range, roam, slop, slouch, traipse, tramp), ‏صالون (living room, salon, sitting room), ‏إسترخى (dangle, laze, loll, refresh, relax, sprawl, unbend, unbuckle, unwind), ‏إستراحة (break, breather, repose, rest, silence, standoff, stoppage, subsidence), ‏ردهة (anteroom, foyer, hall, limbo, lobby, parlor, parlour, vestibule). (various references)

Bulgarian 

салон (auditorium, hall, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon), фоайе (crush room, foyer, lobby, promenade), шезлонг (chaise longue, deck chair), кресло (armchair, easy chair), всекидневна (living room, sitting room), ленива походка, безделнича (bum, drone, fribble, idle, lallygag, muck about), излягане, излягам се (loll, recline), излежавам се (lie in). (various references)

Chinese 

休息室 (lobby). (various references)

Czech

lenošit (laze), společ. místnost, sál (auditorium, court, hall, house, saloon), klubovna (club, club-room, common room), hala (concourse, hall, lobby, shed). (various references)

Danish

aula (auditorium, parlour, salon, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

Dutch

zaal (parlour, saddle, salon, sitting-room), salon (parlour, salon, sitting-room), lounge (foyer, hall, holding room, lobby). (various references)

Esperanto

salono (parlour, salon, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

Faeroese

salur (parlour, salon, sitting-room), høll (auditorium, hall, parlour, salon, sitting-room). (various references)

Farsi 

محل استراحت ولم دادن , لمیدن (Loll, Recline), لم دادن (Loll), وقت گذرانی به بطالت , تن اساءی (Indolence, Leisure), سالن استراحت , صندلی راحتی (Armchair), اطاق استراحت . (various references)

Finnish

vetelehtiä (dawdle, idle, loaf, loiter, slack), olohuone (living-room, sitting-room), odotustila (disconnect mode, disconnected mode, holding room). (various references)

French

salon. (various references)

German

Salon (drawing room, exhibition stand, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon, sitting-room), gesellschaftsraum (function room). (various references)

Greek 

σαλόνι (drawing room, parlor, parlour, salon, sitting room). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת�"לך בעצלתים, אולם �"אורחים, טרקלין (drawing room, parlour, salon), סלון (guest room, living room, parlour, salon, sitting room). (various references)

Hungarian

hall (foyer, hall, hallway, hear, heard, main lounge, to hear, to list). (various references)

Indonesian

golek (be around, lounge around), bermalas-malas (lounge about, lounge around), bergolek-golek (lounge about, roll repeatedly). (various references)

Irish

tolglann. (various references)

Italian

salotto (drawing room, parlor, parlour, salon, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

談話室 , ラウリン酸 (La Salle, Lacoste, lacrosse, lactose, lager beer, Laos, lasagna, lauric acid, loungewear, paddle, raccoon, racket, racquetball, radial, radial tire, radian, radium, radius, raglan, ragtime, rational, rationalism, rationalist, rationalization, round, round number, round robin, round table, rug, rugby, rugger), 休憩所 (restroom), 休憩室 (restroom), 休息所 (lobby, restroom). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ラウンジ , きゅうそくじょ (lobby, restroom), きゅうけいしつ (restroom), きゅうけいじょ (restroom), � �"わしつ. (various references)

Korean 

로비 (Lobbies, lobby). (various references)

Manx

streeley (loiter, loitering, lounging, saunter), shamyr hoie, halley (auditorium, hall, saloon), cuillee (back room, drawing room). (various references)

Norwegian

vestibyle (lobby), slentre (loiter), salong (couch), sal (hall, parlour, saddle, salon, sitting room, sitting-room), dovne seg. (various references)

Papiamen

sala (living-room, parlour, salon, salt, sitting-room), sal (parlour, salon, sitting-room). (various references)

Pig Latin

oungelay.(various references)

Polish

salon (parlour, salon, sitting-room), sala (parlour, salon, sitting-room). (various references)

Portuguese

lazer (laze, leisure), vaguear (hobo, knock about, knock around, maroon, maunder, meander, moon, ramble, range, roam, rove, straggle, stray, trail, vagabondize, wander), sofá (couch, divan, settee, sofa), saladevisitas (parlour, salon), salão (hall, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon), sala de estar (day room, drawing-room, foyer, keeping-room, living room, parlor, parlour, reception desk, sitter, sitting room), recostar-se, ociosidade (absenteeism, dawdle, idleness, otioseness, sloth, trifling, truancy, vagrancy), espreguiçar-se, descanso (bracket, break, crutch, halt, landing, lay-over, leisure, pillow, pillow-block, placement, quiescence, quiescency, recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, relaxation, repose, requiem, respite, rest, resting, saddle, sleep, stand, time-out, touch-down, truce), descansar (breathe, doss, halt, lie by, recess, repose, respire, rest, sleep, take a rest, unyoke). (various references)

Romanian

loc de odihnã (resting place), lenevie (inaction, laziness), lenevi (bum, dawdle, idle, slack, slug, yawn one's life away), trândãvie (idleness, idling, laziness, sloth), trândãvi (dawdle, drone, laze, lie about, loaf, slack), sta tolãnit (sprawl), sofa (couch, ottoman, settee, sofa), se tolãni, se odihni (fetch breath, refresh, relax, repose, rest, take a rest, take one's ease), salon (drawing room, hall, house-place, keeping room, parlour, salon, saloon, show room, sitting room, sitting-room, state room), pierdere de vreme (cost, kill time), mers lenevos, fotoliu (armchair, arm-chair, easy chair), şezlong (davenport). (various references)

Russian 

слоняться (dangle around, gallivant, hover about, loaf, lop about, mooch, mosey, muck about, putter about), кресло (armchair, chair, easy chair, love-seat, recliner), гостиная;салон, зал (common-room, floor of, hall, parlor, parlour, sala, salle, salon, saloon, saloon car, saloon carriage), з (bring along, whereas), ленивая походка, пиджачный костюм (lounge suit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tumarati (gad about, loiter, maunder, moon, prowl, roam, saunter, wander), kupatilo (bath, bathroom, lavatory), klozet (bathroom, comfort station, john, latrine, lavatory, loo, toilet), gostinska soba (guest room, guest-chamber), foaje (foyer, lobby), čekaonica (waiting room). (various references)

Spanish

salón (drawing room, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon, show, sitting room), sala (auditorium, chamber, hall, house, living room, room, saloon, ward). (various references)

Swedish

vestibul (hall, lobby, vestibule), salong (auditorium, drawing room, drawing-room, house, keeping room, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon, sitting-room), flanera (loaf, lounge about, lounge around, ramble, saunter, stroll, walk). (various references)

Thai

เอกเขนก, เ�"ินทอ�"น่อง (loaf, saunter), ยืนอย่างสบายๆ, ห้องพักสาธาร�"ะ, ห้องสังสรรค์ในโรงแรม, ห้องสังสรรค์ในยานพาหนะ, ปล่อยให้เวลาผ่านไป. (various references)

Turkish

yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, disperse, effuse, emanate, expand, fan, fan out, get about, get around, get round, go, grow rife, loll, mushroom, outstretch, overspread, permeate, pervade, ramble, ramp, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, unfold), uzanmak (be couched, be ranging to the, grasp at, hand up, kip, kip down, lie, lie down, loll, outstretch, range, reach, reach forth, reach out, reach out for, recline, repose oneself, rest, run, run along, skirt along, snatch at, sprawl, spread), uzanma (reach, recumbency), tembellik etmek (be lazy, drone, fiddle-faddle, fribble, have a laze, laze, laze around, lounge about, slack, slack off, slacken, slug), tembel tembel sürtmek, salon (drawing room, hall, hippodrome, living room, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon, sitting room), kanepe (canape, couch, davenport, settee, sofa), divan (couch, council, day bed, Dewan, divan, ottoman, sociable), şezlong (chaise longue, deck chair, lounge chair, settee). (various references)

Ukrainian

шезлонг (day bed, deck chair), відпочивати (lie by, repose, rest, take a rest), марнувати час (dally, dawdle, idle away, putter), марнування часу (dawdle, kill time, trifling), ліниво тинятися, лінива хода. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lang thang không mục đích ghế d� i, sự đi thơ thẩn (saunter), phòng khách (sitting-room), ghế tựa bu�"ng đợi, đi văng (day-bed, divan). (various references)

Welsh

lled-orwedd (loll, recline), gorweddian (loll). (various references)

lectis, lecto, lectum, lectus, longus. (various references)

alongier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "lounge": lounged, lounger, loungers, lounges, loungewear. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lounge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iounge, lauge, Lauingen, laung, launger, leuge, leung, Ljungh, Loewyne, longe, longel, longen, longeu, longi, longue, louge, lougne, Lounel, loung, Lounga, loungue, loungy, Lsungen, Lunga, lungae, lungee, lungi, Lunule, Lupunga, Luvunga, Olonga, olunge, tounge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gluon, longe, lunge.

-2 letters: enol, genu, glen, glue, gone, leno, loge, lone, long, luge, lune, lung, noel, ogle.

-3 letters: ego, eng, eon, gel, gen, gnu, gul, gun, leg, leu, log, lug, nog, ole, one.

-4 letters: el, en, go, lo, ne, no, nu, oe, on, un.

+1 letter: eugenol, lounged, lounger, lounges, unglove.

+2 letters: analogue, angulose, bludgeon, bunghole, eugenols, gunkhole, jelutong, jongleur, ligneous, longueur, loungers, ungloved, ungloves.

+3 letters: analogues, aureoling, befouling, bludgeons, bungholes, delousing, ensouling, euglenoid, gluconate, glutenous, granulose, groundsel, gunkholed, gunkholes, houseling, jelutongs, jongleurs, langouste, longevous, longhouse, longitude, longueurs, loudening, monologue, neuroglia, neurology, nonleague, nonlegume, sinologue, unclogged, ungodlier.

+4 letters: beclouding, bludgeoned, bluetongue, bunglesome, clangoured, counseling, decoupling, epiloguing, euglenoids, euglobulin, eulogising, eulogizing, flugelhorn, gelatinous, generously, glauconite, gluconates, gluttonies, granuloses, groundless, groundsels, guillotine, halogenous, houselling, langoustes, leguminous, longhouses, longitudes, loungewear, monologues, mouldering, neuroglial, neuroglias, neurologic, nonlegumes, numerology, oleaginous, outdueling, outfeeling, outgeneral, outleaping, outselling, outtelling, outyelling, outyelping, overruling, recoupling, redoubling, regulation, rouletting, sinologues, summerlong, tongueless, tonguelike, ungodliest, unpeopling, urogenital.