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lounge
[lounj] 
verb, lounged, loung⋅ing, noun –verb (used without object)
| 1. | to pass time idly and indolently. |
| 2. | to rest or recline indolently; loll: We lounged in the sun all afternoon. |
| 3. | to go or move in a leisurely, indolent manner; saunter (usually fol. by around, along, off, etc.). |
–verb (used with object)
| 4. | to pass (time) in lounging (usually fol. by away or out): to lounge away the afternoon. |
–noun
| 5. | a sofa for reclining, sometimes backless, having a headrest at one end. |
| 6. | a place for sitting, waiting, smoking, etc., esp. a large public room, as in a hotel, theater, or air terminal, often with adjoining washrooms. |
| 7. | a section on a train, plane, or ship having various club or social facilities. |
| 8. | a cocktail lounge. |
| 9. | Archaic. the act or a period of lounging. |
| 10. | Archaic. a lounging gait. |
Origin:
1500–10; orig. uncert.
1500–10; orig. uncert.
Related forms:
loungy, adjective
Synonyms:
1. loaf, idle, relax, dally, potter.
1. loaf, idle, relax, dally, potter.
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| lounge (lounj) v. lounged, loung·ing, loung·es v. intr.
To pass (time) in a lazy, relaxed, or idle way: lounged the day away. n.
[Possibly from French s'allonger, to stretch out, from Old French alongier, to lengthen, from Medieval Latin allongāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin longus, long; see long1.] loung'er n. |
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Lounge
Lounge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lounged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lounging.] [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.] 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
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 ?erved as a fashionable lounge. --Miss Edgeworth. 2. A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : lounge
Spanish:
repantingarse,
German:
herumlümmeln,
Japanese:
もたれかかる
lounge (v.)
1508, from Scot., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Fr. s'allonger (paresseusement) "to lounge about, lie at full length," from O.Fr. alongier "lengthen," from L. longus "long." Another etymology traces it through obsolete lungis (n.) "slow, lazy person" (c.1560), from M.Fr. longis, a generic application of Longinus, supposed to be the name of the centurion who pierced Christ's side with a spear in John xix.34. Popular etymology associated the name with long (adj.). The noun in the sense of "comfortable drawing room" is first recorded 1881; in the sense of "couch on which one can lie at full length," 1830. Lounge lizard is from 1912, originally in reference to men who hung around in tea rooms to flirt.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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