different between loungeroom vs lounge

English

Etymology

lounge +? room

Pronunciation

Noun

loungeroom (plural loungerooms)

1. (Australia) A lounge, a domestic living room.
   • 2000, Victorian Supreme Court, Council of Law Reporting in Victoria, Victorian Reports, Volume 1, page 8,

     The bystanders had entered in two groups of three via the Main Street entrance which led into the loungeroom.

   • 2002, Greg Gow, The Oromo in Exile: From the Horn of Africa to the Suburbs of Australia, page 25,

     One day while visiting Semira and Ahmed I commented on the Oromo pictures and artefacts displayed in their loungeroom.

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