Definition of "lounge"

lounge

/laʊnd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present lounges, present participle lounging, simple past and past participle lounged
1. To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
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  We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.
  1854, J. Hannay, Singleton Fontenoy, R.N
  On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
  2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, page 4
2. To walk or go in a leisurely manner.
  Quotations
  When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.
  1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 287
  As she lounged past Leila's car she cast an insolent glance at the Irish girl.
  2023 August 24, Pauline Lester, Marjorie Dean College Sophomore, BoD - Books on Demand, page 47
noun
plural lounges
1. (now rare) A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
  Quotations
  He […] prevailed on Captain Musgrave to introduce him to a family, where he supposed he might find a monstrous good lounge for the rest of the time he was to be quartered in the neighbourhood.
  1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 196
  Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies.
  1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818)
  One morning she accompanied Madame de Soissons to the fair, then the favourite lounge and amusement. The Comtesse bought every trifle that caught her eye, while Francesca looked on.
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 16
2. The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
  Quotations
  That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.
  1849, The Knickerbocker, volume 33, page 198
3. (Britain) The living room or sitting room of a house.
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  The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
  1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 18, in The Subtle Minotaur‎
4. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
5. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
6. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.

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