PARLOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parlor mean? 

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

1. reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received

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

  Familiarity information: PARLOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARLOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

parlor; parlour

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

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

Sense 2

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 ("parlor" 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 "parlor"):

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 ("parlor" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

When they got home, they found Amy reading in the parlor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But she did not lose her head this time, for she seated Brissenden in her parlor's grandeur of respectability.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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)

Before she came back, Laurie walked into the parlor to find Amy sobbing, with her head in the sofa cushions.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So flustered was she by two such grand young people asking for her lodger, that she forgot to invite them to sit down in the little parlor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At the door her sisters seized and bore her to the parlor in a triumphal procession, all pointing and all saying at once, "Look there! Look there!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One of these, the parlor, gay with an ingrain carpet and dolorous with a funeral card and a death-picture of one of her numerous departed babes, was kept strictly for company.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The sound of voices in the parlor rose and fell for half an hour, but what happened during that interview the girls never knew.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then came the hours of suspense, during which she vibrated from parlor to porch, while public opinion varied like the weathercock.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now you go into the parlor, and I'll send 'em down to you, with which somewhat involved reply Hannah vanished, chuckling ecstatically.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)