LOUNGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lounge mean? 

• LOUNGE (noun)
  The noun LOUNGE has 2 senses:

1. an upholstered seat for more than one person

2. a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait

  Familiarity information: LOUNGE used as a noun is rare.

• LOUNGE (verb)
  The verb LOUNGE has 2 senses:

1. sit or recline comfortably

2. be about

  Familiarity information: LOUNGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOUNGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An upholstered seat for more than one person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

couch; lounge; sofa

Hypernyms ("lounge" is a kind of...):

seat (furniture that is designed for sitting on)

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

convertible; sofa bed (a sofa that can be converted into a bed)

daybed; divan bed (an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night)

divan (a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall))

love seat; loveseat; tete-a-tete; vis-a-vis (small sofa that seats two people)

settee (a small sofa)

squab (a soft padded sofa)

Derivation:

lounge (sit or recline comfortably)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lounge; waiting area; waiting room

Hypernyms ("lounge" 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 "lounge"):

cloakroom (a private lounge off of a legislative chamber)

departure lounge (lounge where passengers can await departure)

• LOUNGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lounge    ... he / she / it lounges   
Past simple: lounged   
Past participle: lounged   
-ing form: lounging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sit or recline comfortably

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

He was lounging on the sofa

Hypernyms (to "lounge" is one way to...):

sit; sit down (be seated)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The children lounge in the rocking chair
There lounge some children in the rocking chair

Derivation:

lounge (an upholstered seat for more than one person)

lounger (an article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear)

lounger (an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be about

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

footle; hang around; lallygag; linger; loaf; loiter; lollygag; lounge; lurk; mess about; mill about; mill around; tarry

Context example:

Who is this man that is hanging around the department?

Hypernyms (to "lounge" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lounge"):

lurch; prowl (loiter about, with no apparent aim)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

lounger (someone who wastes time)

 Context examples 

They all loved it, for it was a family refuge, and one corner had always been Jo's favorite lounging place.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The bright yellow glare from a stable lantern cut a ring suddenly from the darkness, and an ostler came lounging out of the yard.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A number of men, however, who were lounging about a companion-way between the galley and hatch, and who did not seem to be sailors, continued talking in low tones with one another.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A gentleman lounging, full dressed, on a sofa, with an opera-glass in his hand, passed before my view, and also my own figure at full length in a glass.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The days had gone by when a nobleman's hall was but a barn-like, rush-strewn enclosure, the common lounge and eating-room of every inmate of the castle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such a place was the Grotto, where Brissenden and he lounged in capacious leather chairs and drank Scotch and soda.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Eliza generally took no more notice of her sister's indolence and complaints than if no such murmuring, lounging object had been before her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was a different man from the limp and lounging figure in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown who had prowled so restlessly only a few hours before round the fog-girt room.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)