lounge

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

• IPA^(key): /laʊndʒ/

lounge (plural lounges)

1. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
2. A domestic living room.
   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur, 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.

• (living room): loungeroom (Australia)
• (pub): See also Thesaurus:pub

• German: Lounge
• Japanese: ラウンジ (raunji)
• Korean: 라운지 (raunji)
• Swedish: lounge

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.
   • J. Hannay

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

• lugeon

From English lounge

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

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

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

lounge m (plural lounges or lounge)

1. lounge

lo +‎ unge

• IPA^(key): /²luː.ɵŋɛ/

lounge c

1. A lynx cub.

Borrowed from English lounge.

• IPA^(key): /¹laʊndʂ/

lounge c

1. A lounge, a waiting room.