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lounge

  [lounj] verb, lounged, loung⋅ing, noun
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–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.

Related forms:
loungy, adjective

Synonyms:
1. loaf, idle, relax, dally, potter.
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New York Lounge
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lounge   (lounj)   
v.   lounged, loung·ing, loung·es

v.   intr.

  1. To move or act in a lazy, relaxed way; loll: lounging on the sofa; lounged around in pajamas.

  2. To pass time idly: lounged in Venice till June.

v.   tr.
To pass (time) in a lazy, relaxed, or idle way: lounged the day away.
n.  

  1. A public waiting room, as in a hotel or an air terminal, often having smoking or lavatory facilities.

  2. A cocktail lounge.

    1. A living room.

    2. A lobby.

  4. A long couch, especially one having no back and a headrest at one end.


[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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Word Origin & History

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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