lounge

UK /laʊnd͡ʒ/ US /laʊnd͡ʒ/
noun 5verb 2

Definitions

verb

1

To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas.

We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.

2

To walk or go in a leisurely manner.

When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.

As she lounged past Leila's car she cast an insolent glance at the Irish girl.

noun

1

A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.

He […] prevailed on Captain Musgrave to introduce him to a family, where he supposed he might find a monstrous good lounge for the rest of the time he was to be quartered in the neighbourhood.

Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies.

2

A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.

3

The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.

That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.

4

A room of a house for casual relaxing and entertaining.

Near-synonyms: den, living room, sitting room, parlour, parlor, rec room

Let's go hang out in the lounge.

5

A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.

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