lounge, waiting room, waiting area
(noun) a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait
sofa, couch, lounge
(noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person
lounge
(verb) sit or recline comfortably; “He was lounging on the sofa”
loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
(verb) be about; “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”; “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lounge (plural lounges)
A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
(British) A domestic living room.
An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
• (living room): loungeroom (Australia), sitting room (Britain), parlour
• (pub): See also pub
lounge (third-person singular simple present lounges, present participle lounging, simple past and past participle lounged)
To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
• J. Hannay
• lugeon
Source: Wiktionary
Lounge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lounged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lounging.] Etym: [OE. lungis a tall, slow, awkward fellow, OF. longis, longin, said to be fr. Longinus, the name of the centurion who pierced the body of Christ, but with reference also to L. longus long. Cf. Long, a.]
Definition: To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner. We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. J. Hannay.
Lounge, n.
1. An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging. She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's whose shop lounge. Miss Edgeworth.
2. A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
