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Definition: Living Room |
Living 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: Living RoomSynonyms: front room (n), livingroom (n), parlor (n), parlour (n), sitting room (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Living Room |
| English words defined with "living room": glamorize, glamourise ♦ help ♦ Lanai. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "living room": BUTLER, SECOND ♦ living unit. (references) |
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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) | |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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Expression using "living room": furnish the living room. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| 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) | |
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| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ama. (various references) |
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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. | |
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