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LOUNGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

lounge; waiting area; waiting room

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An upholstered seat for more than one person

Synonyms:

couch; lounge; sofa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sit or recline comfortably

Example:

He was lounging on the sofa

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

Example:

Who is this man that is hanging around the department?

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He was with us just now, and said he was so tired of lounging about, that he was resolved to go and dance; so I thought perhaps he would ask you, if he met with you.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Could Sir Thomas have seen all his niece's feelings, when she wrote her first letter to her aunt, he would not have despaired; for though a good night's rest, a pleasant morning, the hope of soon seeing William again, and the comparatively quiet state of the house, from Tom and Charles being gone to school, Sam on some project of his own, and her father on his usual lounges, enabled her to express herself cheerfully on the subject of home, there were still, to her own perfect consciousness, many drawbacks suppressed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was a sight which I shall never forget until my dying day—so weird, so impossible, that I do not know how I am to make you realize it, or how in a few years I shall bring myself to believe in it if I live to sit once more on a lounge in the Savage Club and look out on the drab solidity of the Embankment.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,—and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This maneuver she repeated several times, to the great amusement of a black-eyed young gentleman lounging in the window of a building opposite.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And I could see Charley Furuseth, as I had said good-bye to him that morning, lounging in a dressing-gown on the be-pillowed window couch and delivering himself of oracular and pessimistic epigrams.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Striding through the scattered knots of people who lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook the little man and touched him upon the shoulder.

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

I know that I lounged about the streets, insufficiently and unsatisfactorily fed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Ruth sat near him in the stern, while the three young fellows lounged amidships, deep in a wordy wrangle over "frat" affairs.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Here and there by the wayside stood little knots of wattle-and-daub huts with shock-haired laborers lounging by the doors and red-cheeked children sprawling in the roadway.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)