different between lounge vs wander

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-Germanic *wandr?n? (“to wander”), from Proto-Indo-European *wend?- (“to turn, wind”), equivalent to wend +? -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• (West Midlands, especially Birmingham) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/, IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: wan?der

Verb

wander (third-person singular simple present wanders, present participle wandering, simple past and past participle wandered)

1. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

   • They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

   Synonyms: err, roam

2. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
   • Bible, Psalms cxix.10:

     O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

3. (intransitive) To commit adultery.

   Synonym: cheat

4. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
5. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

   Synonym: drift

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

wander (countable and uncountable, plural wanders)

1. (countable) The act or instance of wandering.

2. (uncountable) The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value.

   Hyponym: polar wander

   baseline wander in ECG signals

Translations

Anagrams

• Andrew, Darwen, Warden, drawne, warden, warned

German

Pronunciation

Verb

wander

1. inflection of wandern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative