Living Room

  

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Living Room

Definition: Living Room

Living 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: Living Room

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

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Crosswords: Living Room

English words defined with "living room": glamorize, glamourisehelpLanai. (references)
Specialty definitions using "living room": BUTLER, SECONDliving unit. (references)

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Modern Usage: Living Room

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I don't think he's gonna get that message Joe, I mean, the guy's got worms in his living room. (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

Is there a big living room that goes here (Lost in America; writing credit: Albert Brooks; Monica Mcgowan Johnson)

Ok one Christmas morning, I wake up, I run into the living room and my mother says 'I just forgot' (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

There's a maniac lives there and he's dangerousI was standing in my yard one day when his Mama come out yelling, 'He's killin' us all.' Turned out that Boo was sitting in the living room cutting up the paper for his scrapbook, and when his daddy come by, he reached over with his scissors, stabbed him in his leg, pulled them out, and went right on cutting the paper (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

Sam, I found an apartment It's got everything I ever wanted a living room and a bedroom (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

Lyrics

'Cause I knew that I was going to be a legend in my living room (Legend In My Living Room; performing artist: Len)

I recommend walking around naked in your living room (You Learn; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Three days since the living room (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Movie/TV Titles

Robbie Williams: Live in Your Living Room (1998)

Elephant in the Living Room (1990)

We Should Call It a Living Room (1975)

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

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Commercial Usage: Living Room

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2001 Report on Non-Upholstered Dining and Living Room Furniture: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The UK Market for Dining Room and Living Room Furniture (reference)

  • The Dropped Living Room (Thorndike Large Print Candlelight Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • The Last Living Room of the Lebensraum: Dying of Peace (reference)

  • Elephants in the Living Room Bears in Canoe (reference)

  • Living Room (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Living Room

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Photo Album: Living Room

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Caption: Home Projecting Kinetoscope Publicity Shot, Made at Edison's Studio, Family Watching Film in Living Room; August 9, 1912; {23.500/5} (jpg).

U.S. Army. Hospital, Fort Benning, Ga. : Interior view- Living Room, Nurses quarters. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. : Living room, Nurses' quarters. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Meeting in living room. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gathering in the living room. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bauhaus design problem for one-bedroom courtyard house; site plan, floor plan, and perspective elevation showing the bedroom partition and living room seen through glass curtain wall, and covered outdoor living area. Credit: Library of Congress.

Christmas tree and toys in living room. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kitchen and living room, John Hancock House, Lexington, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Family living room, Paul Revere House, Boston, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pres. library as living room, White House, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Living Room

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

More efficiency and one-bedroom (and living room) apartment buildings are under construction. (references)

Presently, there is only one kind of set-top box in the retail market that is the Living Room Computer (Stock Set-top Box) which are produced by Legend Corporation Ltd. this set-top box can meet family needs for work, education and entertainment. (references)

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

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Spoken Usage: Living Room

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Art Linkletter

Oh, this is coming into my living room and this is the kind of stuff that we used to associate with guys with the coats going into the theaters and watching the porno pictures.

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

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Expression: Living Room

Expression using "living room": furnish the living room. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Living Room

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

living room furniture

1,879

sectional living room furniture

8

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588

arrangement living room

8

decorating living room

235

arranging living room furniture

8

living room design

207

dining furniture furniture home living room room

7

living room set

160

living room spacious

7

living room chair

101

living room style

6

living room picture

84

drape living room

6

living room decorating idea

65

broyhill living room furniture

6

living room decor

47

living room war

5

contemporary living room furniture

44

living room schaumburg

5

living room decoration

32

contemporary design living room

5

decorate living room

31

game living room

5

living room sofa

31

chaise living room

5

design interior living room

25

dining living room

5

formal living room furniture

20

living room unit wall

4

living room lamp

14

living room sunken

4

design idea living room

14

the outdoor living room

4

designing a living room

12

design idea interior living room

3

remodel living room

10

living room showroom

3

living room furniture arrangement

10

arranging living room

3

color living room scheme

9

country design living room

3

arrange living room furniture

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Living Room

Language Translations for "living room"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

sitkamer (living-room, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

dhomë ndenjieje (lounge). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مجال حيوي (living space), ‏غرفة الجلوس (anteroom, lounge), ‏صالون (lounge, salon, sitting room). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

salón. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

всекидневна (lounge, sitting room). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

sala. (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

sala (hallway). (various references)

   

Czech

  

obývací pokoj (keeping room, living-room, sitting room). (various references)

   

Danish

  

opholdsstue (sitting room), dagligstue (living-room, sitting-room). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

woonkamer (living-room, sitting-room), huiskamer (living-room, sitting-room). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

loĝoĉambro (living-room, sitting room, sitting-room), familia ĉambro. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

stova (cabinet, chamber, room). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

olohuone (living-room, lounge, sitting-room). (various references)

   

French

  

salle de séjour (livingn room). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

wenkeamer (living-room, sitting-room). (various references)

   

German

  

Wohnzimmer (living-room, lounge, parlor, parlors, parlour, parlours, reception room, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθιστικό (sitting-room). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ח"ר מ'ורים, ח"ר אורחים (drawing room, parlour, sitting room), סלון (guest room, lounge, parlour, salon, sitting room). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nappali (day, diurnal, parlor, parlour, sitting room). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

pulaaqvik. (various references)

   

Italian

  

stanza (apartment, living-room, room, sitting-room, stanza), soggiorno (abode, residence, residency, sitting room, sojourn, stay). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

茶の" , 表座敷 (front room, parlor), リ"ア山猫 (liberation, libido, Libyan wildcat, lift, liftback, living, living kitchen, living room set, living stock, makeover, rebate, reboot, reference, reference guide, referencer, refinance, refine, reflation, reflect, reflection, reflective, reform instructor, reform plan, refrain, refresh, refreshment, repeat, repeater, replace, replicate, replication, reply, repression, reprint, reproduction, revision, rib, rib roast, rift, ripple, rivet, updating), 奥座敷 (inner parlor, salon), 居" , 居室 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おくざしき (inner parlor, salon), おもてざしき (front room, parlor), リ"ングルー , きょしつ, いま (immediately, just now, more, now, soon, the present time), ちゃのま. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

dnevna soba. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

tsi kanonhsiyo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivinglay oomray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

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

   

Provencal

  

sala d'estar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

camerã de zi (keeping room). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гостиная (drawing room, keeping room, keeping-room, living-room, parlor, parlour, reception room, reception-room, salon, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

potu nofonofo. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dnevna soba (sitting room). (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

salottu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sala de estar (drawing room). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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

   

Turkish

  

salon (drawing room, hall, hippodrome, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon, sitting room), oturma odası (parlor, parlour, sitting room). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

вітальня (drawing room, keeping room, salon), загальна кімната. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Living Room

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

ama. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Living Room

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-r-v"

-2 letters: vrooming.

-3 letters: ligroin, looming, moiling, mooring, roiling, rooming.

-4 letters: liming, living, logion, looing, loving, miring, mongol, mooing, morion, moving, oiling, origin, riling, riming, riving, roving, violin, virgin, virion, voling.

-5 letters: giron, gloom, groin, groom, igloo, imino, iring, lingo, logoi, minor, mongo, moron, nomoi, ovoli, vigil, vigor, vroom.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-r-v"
 

+5 letters: overglamorizing.

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. Quotations: Spoken
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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