PARLOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parlour mean? 

• PARLOUR (noun)
  The noun PARLOUR 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: PARLOUR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARLOUR (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 ("parlour" 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 ("parlour" 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 "parlour"):

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

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

 Context examples 

However, as it must be done, I went down, after two or three false starts half-way, and as many runs back on tiptoe to my own room, and presented myself in the parlour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The subject had been already handled in the drawing-room; it was revived in the dining-parlour.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I took it from her hand: she pointed me out the parlour door.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Emma's pensive meditations, as she walked home, were not interrupted; but on entering the parlour, she found those who must rouse her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The plan had reached this point, when Anne, coming quietly down from Louisa's room, could not but hear what followed, for the parlour door was open.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“Well, Miss Morland,” said he, on finding her alone in the parlour, “I am come to bid you good-bye.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was shown into the breakfast-parlour, where all but Jane were assembled, and where her appearance created a great deal of surprise.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Three to two was offered in my own bar-parlour.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then they began to run, rushed into the parlour, and threw themselves round their father’s neck.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I had come into the parlour unexpected, and as I walked in at the door I saw a light of welcome on my wife’s face.

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