lounge
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lounge/laʊnʤ/
▶verb recline or stand in a relaxed or lazy way. ▶noun
- 1 Brit. a sitting room.
■ a public sitting room in a hotel or theatre.
■ a seating area in an airport for waiting passengers.
- 2 Brit. a spell of lounging.
– origin C16 (in the sense ‘move indolently’): perh. symbolic of slow movement.
'lounge' also found in these Oxford entries:
chaise longue
- club car
- clutter
- conservatory
- deceptively
- flâneur
- frowst
- lounge bar
- lounge lizard
- lounge suit
- saloon
