lounge

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from French s’allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer (“to walk along”). Compare also German lungern (“to hang or lounge around, linger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laʊnd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊnd͡ʒ
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /laʊnd͡ʒ/, (proscribed) /lɔnd͡ʒ/

Verb

lounge (third-person singular simple present lounges, present participle lounging, simple past and past participle lounged)

1. (intransitive) To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

   We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas.

   • 1854, J. Hannay, Singleton Fontenoy, R.N:

     We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.

   • 1993, “Loungin'”, in Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1, performed by Guru ft. Donald Byrd:

     Everybody knows they have times when they wanna just lay back / Kick their feet up, y'know / Listen to some good music and just lounge / That's right, I said lounge

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:

     On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.

2. To walk or go in a leisurely manner.
   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 287:

     When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.

   • 2023 August 24, Pauline Lester, Marjorie Dean College Sophomore, BoD - Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 47:

     As she lounged past Leila's car she cast an insolent glance at the Irish girl.

Translations

Noun

lounge (plural lounges)

1. (now rare) A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
   • 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 196:

     He […] prevailed on Captain Musgrave to introduce him to a family, where he supposed he might find a monstrous good lounge for the rest of the time he was to be quartered in the neighbourhood.

   • 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, , 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

     Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. , volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 16:

     One morning she accompanied Madame de Soissons to the fair, then the favourite lounge and amusement. The Comtesse bought every trifle that caught her eye, while Francesca looked on.

2. The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
   • 1849, The Knickerbocker, volume 33, page 198:

     That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.

3. (British) The living room or sitting room of a house.
   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 18, in The Subtle Minotaur‎:

     The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.

4. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
5. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
6. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.

Synonyms

• (living room): loungeroom (Australia), sitting room (Britain), parlour
• (pub): See also Thesaurus:pub

Descendants

• German: Lounge
• Japanese: ラウンジ (raunji)
• Korean: 라운지 (raunji)
• Swedish: lounge

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• lugeon

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English lounge.

Noun

lounge m (definite singular loungen, indefinite plural lounger, definite plural loungene)

1. a lounge (usually in a hotel, airport or ship)

References

• “lounge” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Spanish

Noun

lounge m (plural lounges or lounge)

1. lounge

Swedish

Etymology 1

lo +‎ unge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²luː.ɵŋɛ/

Noun

lounge c

1. A lynx cub.

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lounge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹laʊndʂ/

Noun

lounge c

1. A lounge, a waiting room.

Declension