DRAWING ROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drawing room mean? 

• DRAWING ROOM (noun)
  The noun DRAWING ROOM has 2 senses:

1. a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained

2. a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet

  Familiarity information: DRAWING ROOM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAWING ROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal room where visitors can be received and entertained

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

drawing room; withdrawing room

Hypernyms ("drawing room" is a kind of...):

reception room (a room for receiving and entertaining visitors (as in a private house or hotel))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("drawing room" is a kind of...):

compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)

Holonyms ("drawing room" is a part of...):

sleeper; sleeping car; wagon-lit (a passenger car that has berths for sleeping)

 Context examples 

She could scarcely eat any dinner, and when they afterwards returned to the drawing room, seemed anxiously listening to the sound of every carriage.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

After that, the little brown hood slipped through the hedge nearly every day, and the great drawing room was haunted by a tuneful spirit that came and went unseen.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The tent is for your especial benefit and that oak is your drawing room, this is the messroom and the third is the camp kitchen.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters were met at the door of the house by Sir John, who welcomed them to Barton Park with unaffected sincerity; and as he attended them to the drawing room repeated to the young ladies the concern which the same subject had drawn from him the day before, at being unable to get any smart young men to meet them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Miss Kate did know several new games, and as the girls would not, and the boys could not, eat any more, they all adjourned to the drawing room to play Rig-marole.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

These parlors are both too small for such parties of our friends as I hope to see often collected here; and I have some thoughts of throwing the passage into one of them with perhaps a part of the other, and so leave the remainder of that other for an entrance; this, with a new drawing room which may be easily added, and a bed-chamber and garret above, will make it a very snug little cottage.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They found Mr. Laurence standing before the fire in the great drawing room, but Jo's attention was entirely absorbed by a grand piano, which stood open.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The insipidity of the meeting was exactly such as Elinor had expected; it produced not one novelty of thought or expression, and nothing could be less interesting than the whole of their discourse both in the dining parlour and drawing room: to the latter, the children accompanied them, and while they remained there, she was too well convinced of the impossibility of engaging Lucy's attention to attempt it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

For I'm shut up in my study at the other end of the house, Laurie is out a great deal, and the servants are never near the drawing room after nine o'clock.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Before her removing from Norland, Elinor had painted a very pretty pair of screens for her sister-in-law, which being now just mounted and brought home, ornamented her present drawing room; and these screens, catching the eye of John Dashwood on his following the other gentlemen into the room, were officiously handed by him to Colonel Brandon for his admiration.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)