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Definition: Sitting Room |
Sitting RoomNoun1. A room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Sitting RoomSynonyms: front room (n), living room (n), livingroom (n), parlor (n), parlour (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sitting Room |
| English words defined with "sitting room": bedsit, bedsitter, bedsitting room, boudoir ♦ common room ♦ Keeping room ♦ morning room ♦ salon. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Bed Sitting Room (1969) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | Caption: Glenmont, Interior, Second Floor, Living and Sitting Room, Facing Windows; West Orange, NJ; 1907; {12.425/26} (jpg). | ![]() | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 109, Évreaux, France. : Nurses in a sitting room. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 20, Chatel Guyon, France. : Nurses' home, sitting room. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Crew's sitting room, S.S. J.H. Sheadle. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Detroit, Mich., interior, 121 Henry St., sitting room. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Thomas S. Holden, residence on Tory Hill Rd., Darien, Connecticut. Sitting room, to fireplace. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mr. and Mrs. Camille Dreyfus, residence at Fenimore Rd. and Cornell St., Mamaroneck, New York. Sitting room. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Round Hill Country Club, Greenwich, Connecticut. Main sitting room. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mrs. Little, quarters in Marine Barracks. Sitting room. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Trinity College. Sitting room on Trinity College campus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | As described in Table I (above), U.S. manufacturers of sitting room sets can easily compete with Italian exporters on a price basis and with local manufacturers on a quality basis. (references) | |
Currently, there are some dealers offering competitively priced U.S. home furniture items for sitting room sets (single chairs, loveseats and sofas), bedrooms, end tables, coffee tables, side tables, and library shelves. (references) | ||
Economic History | West Bank | Good opportunities exist for sitting room and bedroom sets, dining tables, recliners and sleepers, buffets, coffee tables, end tables, and TV tables. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sitting room": bed-sitting room. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sitting room"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | sitkamer (living room, living-room, sitting-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sallon (drawing room, hall, hallway, parlor, parlour, porch, salon, saloon), vend për të ndenjur ulur, dhomë pritjeje (drawing room, parlor, parlour, waiting room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غرفة الضيوف, صالون (living room, lounge, salon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | всекидневна стая (parlor, parlour), всекидневна (living room, lounge), място за сядане. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | obývací pokoj (keeping room, living room, living-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | opholdsstue (living room), dagligstue (living-room, sitting-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | woonkamer (living room, living-room, sitting-room), huiskamer (living room, living-room, sitting-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | salono (lounge, parlour, salon, sitting-room), loĝoĉambro (living room, living-room, sitting-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | salon (sitting-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wohnzimmer (living room, living-room, lounge, parlor, parlors, parlour, parlours, reception room, sitting-room), Wohnstube. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαλόνι (drawing room, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ח"ר אורחים (drawing room, living room, parlour), סלון (guest room, living room, lounge, parlour, salon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nappali (day, diurnal, living room, parlor, parlour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | soggiorno (abode, living room, residence, residency, sojourn, stay), salotto (drawing room, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon, sitting-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | シチジル酸 (chic, cytidylic acid, ship, Ship American Policy, sickness bag, sit-in, situation, six nine, soixante-neuf, stew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シッティングルー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shamyr soie (drawing room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | sal (hall, lounge, parlour, saddle, salon, sitting-room), dagligstue (livingroom, living-room, sitting-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ittingsay oomray sala de estar (day room, drawing-room, foyer, keeping-room, parlor, parlour, reception desk, sitter). (various references) salon (drawing room, hall, house-place, keeping room, lounge, parlour, salon, saloon, show room, sitting-room, state room). (various references) гостиная (drawing room, keeping room, keeping-room, living room, living-room, parlor, parlour, reception room, reception-room, salon, sitting-room), общая комната в квартире, помещение для сидения. (various references) dnevna soba (living room). (various references) salón (drawing room, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon, show), cuarto de estar (chummery, keeping room, lounge). (various references) vardagsrum (bed sitter, bed-sitter, living room, lounge, morning-room, parlor, parlour, sitting-room). (various references) salon (drawing room, hall, hippodrome, living room, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon), oturma odası (living room, parlor, parlour), oturacak yer (seat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-m-n-o-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: motorising. | |
-2 letters: intromits, mortising, motorings, sortition. | |
-3 letters: ignitors, introits, intromit, monitors, moorings, motoring, motorist, omitting, roosting, storming, tortonis. | |
-4 letters: gnomist, grottos, ignitor, intorts, introit, ironist, misting, mitring, monitor, mooring, mooting, morions, motions, nitroso, origins, rioting, risotto, rooming, roosing, rooting, rotting, signior, signori, sitting, smiting, sooting, sorting, storing, timings, toiting, tooting, torsion, tortoni, trigons, tritons. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-m-n-o-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: trigonometries. | |
+4 letters: geometrizations. | |
+5 letters: magnetostriction. | |
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