LIVING ROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does living room mean? 

• LIVING ROOM (noun)
  The noun LIVING ROOM has 1 sense:

1. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax

  Familiarity information: LIVING ROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVING ROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room

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

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "living room"):

common room (a sitting room (usually at school or university))

morning room (a sitting room used during the daylight hours)

salon (elegant sitting room where guests are received)

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

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)

 Context examples 

Homes were visited annually to collect household dust samples from the living room and child’s bedroom.

(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)

Once he dared, one afternoon, when he found her in the darkened living room with a blinding headache.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a duplex that also offered an elevator, and inside the apartment, a spiral staircase linked the upstairs bedrooms from the large living room.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The front room served as bedchamber and living room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And besides, it did not seem reasonable that he should be right—he who had stood, so short a time before, in that same living room, blushing and awkward, acknowledging his introduction, looking fearfully about him at the bric-a- brac his swinging shoulders threatened to break, asking how long since Swinburne died, and boastfully announcing that he had read Excelsior and the Psalm of Life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We went in. To my overwhelming surprise the living room was deserted.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The apartment was on the top floor—a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire and disappeared into the living room. It wasn't a bit funny. Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

For half a minute there wasn't a sound. Then from the living room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh followed by Daisy's voice on a clear artificial note.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

When I came back they had disappeared so I sat down discreetly in the living room and read a chapter of Simon Called Peter—either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things because it didn't make any sense to me.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)