different between cafe vs lounge

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ?fe?/, /?kæfe?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæfe?/, (dated) /?kæfi/
• (General South African) IPA^(key): /kæ?fi?/
• Rhymes: -æfe?, -e?

Noun

cafe (plural cafes)

1. Alternative form of café
2. (South Africa) A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.

Derived terms

• pavement cafe
• sidewalk cafe

Translations

Anagrams

• face

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish café

Noun

cafe

1. coffee

Occitan

Alternative forms

• cafè (Languedoc)

Noun

cafe m (plural cafes) (Limousin)

1. coffee (beverage)
2. café (establishment)

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain, possibly from French s'allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?nd?/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?

Noun

lounge (plural lounges)

1. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
2. (Britain) A domestic living room.
   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur,^[1] chapter 18:

     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.

3. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
4. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
5. The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
   • 1849, The Knickerbocker (volume 33, page 198)

     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.

Synonyms

• (living room): loungeroom (Australia), sitting room (Britain), parlour
• (pub): See also Thesaurus:pub

Descendants

• German: Lounge
• Japanese: ???? (raunji)
• Korean: ??? (raunji)
• Swedish: lounge

Translations

Verb

lounge (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.
   • 1854, J. Hannay, Singleton Fontenoy, R.N

     We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• lugeon

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English lounge

Noun

lounge m (definite singular loungen, indefinite plural lounger, definite plural loungene)

1. a lounge (usually in a hotel, airport or ship)

References

• “lounge” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Spanish

Noun

lounge m (plural lounges or lounge)

1. lounge

Swedish

Etymology 1

lo +? unge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²lu?.???/

Noun

lounge c

1. A lynx cub.

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lounge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹la?nd?/

Noun

lounge c

1. A lounge, a waiting room.

Declension