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Sitting Room

Definition: Sitting Room

Sitting Room

Noun

1. 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 Room

Synonyms: front room (n), living room (n), livingroom (n), parlor (n), parlour (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sitting Room

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Sitting Room

English words defined with "sitting room": bedsit, bedsitter, bedsitting room, boudoircommon roomKeeping roommorning roomsalon. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sitting Room

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

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

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Commercial Usage: Sitting Room

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Photo Album: Sitting Room

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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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sitting Room

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Expression: Sitting Room

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "sitting room": bed-sitting room.

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

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Modern Translation: Sitting Room

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

   

Portuguese

  

sala de estar (day room, drawing-room, foyer, keeping-room, parlor, parlour, reception desk, sitter). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

salon (drawing room, hall, house-place, keeping room, lounge, parlour, salon, saloon, show room, sitting-room, state room). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dnevna soba (living room). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

salón (drawing room, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon, show), cuarto de estar (chummery, keeping room, lounge). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vardagsrum (bed sitter, bed-sitter, living room, lounge, morning-room, parlor, parlour, sitting-room). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

salon (drawing room, hall, hippodrome, living room, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon), oturma odası (living room, parlor, parlour), oturacak yer (seat). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sitting Room

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Expressions
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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