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lounge

[lounj]

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verb (used without object)

to pass time idly and indolently.

to rest or recline indolently; loll: We lounged in the sun all afternoon.

to go or move in a leisurely, indolent manner; saunter (usually followed by around, along, off, etc.).

verb (used with object)

to pass (time) in lounging (usually followed by away or out): to lounge away the afternoon.

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noun

a sofa for reclining, sometimes backless, having a headrest at one end.

a place for sitting, waiting, smoking, etc., especially a large public room, as in a hotel, theater, or air terminal, often with adjoining washrooms.

a section on a train, plane, or ship having various club or social facilities.

a cocktail lounge.

Archaic. the act or a period of lounging.

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10.

Archaic. a lounging gait.

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Origin:
1500–10; origin uncertain

Related forms

loung·y, adjective

Can be confused: long, longe, lounge, lunge.

Synonyms
1. loaf, idle, relax, dally, potter.

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Mynt, a new lounge opening next month, promises aromatherapy in the.

Twitter is quickly becoming a global faculty lounge.

The new hub will bring together the bar, the lounge and the restaurant in one large friendly area.

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Mynt, a new lounge opening next month, promises aromatherapy in the.

Twitter is quickly becoming a global faculty lounge.

The new hub will bring together the bar, the lounge and the restaurant in one large friendly area.

Hippos lounge in the water holes and it is not uncommon to see lions.

Imagine you are almost dozing in a lounge chair outside, with a magazine on your lap.

Stretch out on a lawn chaise lounge or a sleeping bag for a good peripheral view of the sky.

The raised deck outside the bedroom creates a perch for an oversize lounge chair, whose cushion echoes the bronzy brown foliage.

She heard the music and was suddenly transported back to her childhood lounge room.

The view of the window in the restaurant lounge from the front lobby.

Better yet, go to a lounge in a high poverty, high minority school.

Your correspondent has finally given in to family pressure to create a dedicated media lounge.

Maidens and warriors lounge among the carved porticos.

Given a choice of surgeons, you might actually want the one sitting in the hospital lounge playing video games.

We stash our luggage and make for two lounge chairs under a thatched-palm palapa.

The study itself was simple: subjects viewed a series of rooms filled with different kinds of couches and lounge chairs.

Oh, and by the way, that's my blue coffee mug next to the microwave in the lounge.

Students have a large lounge on the first floor with a computer centre and business library next door.

We then congregate in a candlelit lounge to swap stories for shots of sake before retiring to the plush futons in our bedrooms.

We spoke in a lounge of the ultramodern conference center as speakers and guests milled around us.

We used it as a platform for a lounge area off an outdoor kitchen.

Old men and skinny cows lounge in the shade of baobab trees.

People with empty baskets lounge on benches and read.

Famous lobby lounge with capsule seats, and bar and river views, is a popular party destination for the in-crowd.

In the front yard, a hammock sways near lounge chairs.

Let the thing lounge in the sun all day long and it will end up with enough power to charge an iPhone four time.

She then escorted us directly to the transfer counter and on to the departure lounge.

Chickens and children can now lounge underneath the arbor, free from fears of another collapse.

Just ten, amazingly, although they have plenty of space to lounge around in.

Really they should quote departure lounge to arrivals gate time.

Gleick limps slowly out to a deck and settles into a lounge chair.

The best way is a gin and tonic in the lounge and a couple on the flight.

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World English Dictionary

lounge (laʊndʒ)

—vb
1.	(intr; often foll by about or around) to sit, lie, walk, or stand in a relaxed manner
2.	to pass (time) lazily or idly

—n
3.	a. a communal room in a hotel, ship, theatre, etc, used for waiting or relaxing in
	b. (as modifier): lounge chair
4.	chiefly (Brit) a living room in a private house
5.	(Brit) lounge bar, Also called: saloon bar a more expensive bar in a pub or hotel
6.	chiefly (US), (Canadian)
	a. an expensive bar, esp in a hotel
	b. short for cocktail lounge
7.	a sofa or couch, esp one with a headrest and no back
8.	the act or an instance of lounging

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Word Origin & History

lounge

c.1500, from Scottish, 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

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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.

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