Lounge
[laʊn(d)ʒ] or [laʊndʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait.
(verb.) sit or recline comfortably; 'He was lounging on the sofa'.
Inputed by Angie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
(n.) An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.
(n.) A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.
Typed by Ann
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Recline, loll, LOAF, live lazily, spend time idly.
Inputed by Jill
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LOLL_and_LOITER]
Typist: Miranda
Definition
v.i. to recline at one's ease: to move about listlessly.—n. the act or state of lounging: an idle stroll: a place for lounging: a kind of sofa.—n. Loung′er.
Editor: Rosalie
Examples
- St. Clare was stretched on a bamboo lounge in the verandah, solacing himself with a cigar. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She, had no business to lounge away the noon on a sofa. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She found Loerke sitting alone in the lounge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Professor and Loerke went into a small lounge to drink. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As I lay on the lounge and my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, I fancied I could see a long, dusky, shapeless thing stretched upon the floor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Marie lay back on a lounge, and covered her face with her cambric handkerchief. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I chose it in the far east of London, where there were fewest idle people to lounge and look about them in the streets. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She smiles, looks very handsome, takes his arm, lounges with him for a quarter of a mile, is very much bored, and resumes her seat in the carriage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Chairs, lounges and lighter furniture were thus made from bent pieces of wood with very few joints, having a neat and attractive appearance, and possessing great strength. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The bedstead, chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- My Lady lounges in a great chair in the chimney-corner, and Sir Leicester takes another great chair opposite. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At Miss Ophelia's direction, one of the lounges in the parlor was hastily prepared, and the bleeding form laid upon it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Cane-backed and bottomed chairs and lounges only a few years ago were a luxury of the rich and made slowly by hand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Sometimes I would meet him in the neighbourhood lounging about and biting his nails. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then followed the famous observation of the swinging lamp by the then young Galileo, about 1582, while lounging in the cathedral of Pisa. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In a word, his real time of relief being that evening at sunset, his mate came lounging in, within a quarter of an hour. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To which, the butcher's boy: who appeared of a lounging, not to say indolent disposition: replied, that he thought not. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Dallas seemed to be speaking in the room: the voice was as near by and natural as if he had been lounging in his favourite arm-chair by the fire. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Two hours were a long stretch of lounging about, after a long day's labour. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They all drank it merrily, and began the experiment by lounging for the rest of the day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I know that I lounged about the streets, insufficiently and unsatisfactorily fed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They had lounged away in a poverty-stricken, purposeless, accidental manner, quite natural and unimpeachable. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Mr. Carton had lounged in, but he made only Two. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At Nice, Laurie had lounged and Amy had scolded. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the morning they all stalked and lounged about again. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Rupert