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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOUNGE, v.i. to live in idleness; to spend time lazily.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an upholstered seat for more than one person [syn: sofa, couch, lounge]
2: a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait [syn: lounge, waiting room, waiting area] v
1: sit or recline comfortably; "He was lounging on the sofa"
2: be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (lounged; lounging) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1508 intransitive verb to act or move idly or lazily ; loaf Synonyms: see idle transitive verb to pass (time) idly II. noun Date: 1775 1. a place for lounging: as a. a room in a private home or public building for leisure activities ; living room; also lobby b. a room in a usually public building or vehicle often combining lounging, smoking, and toilet facilities 2. a long couch

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. 1 recline comfortably and casually; loll. 2 stand or move about idly. --n. 1 a place for lounging, esp.: a a public room (e.g. in a hotel). b a place in an airport etc. with seats for waiting passengers. c a sitting-room in a house. 2 a spell of lounging. Phrases and idioms: lounge bar Brit. a more comfortable room for drinking in a public house. lounge lizard colloq. an idler in fashionable society. lounge suit Brit. a man's formal suit for ordinary day wear. Etymology: perh. f. obs. lungis lout

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lounge Lounge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lounged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lounging.] [OE. lungis a tall, slow, awkward fellow, OF. longis, longin, said to be fr. Longinus, the name of the centurion who pierced the body of Christ, but with reference also to L. longus long. Cf. Long, a.] To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner. We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. --J. Hannay.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lounge Lounge, n. 1. An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging. She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's whose shop ?erved as a fashionable lounge. --Miss Edgeworth. 2. A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lounges, lounging, lounged) 1. In a house, a lounge is a room where people sit and relax. (mainly BRIT) The Holmbergs were sitting before a roaring fire in the lounge, sipping their cocoa. = living room N-COUNT 2. In a hotel, club, or other public place, a lounge is a room where people can sit and relax. I spoke to her in the lounge of a big Johannesburg hotel where she was attending a union meeting. N-COUNT 3. In an airport, a lounge is a very large room where people can sit and wait for aircraft to arrive or leave. Instead of taking me to the departure lounge they took me right to my seat on the plane. N-COUNT: usu supp N 4. If you lounge somewhere, you sit or lie there in a relaxed or lazy way. They ate and drank and lounged in the shade... VERB: V prep

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. 1. Recline, loll. 2. Loll, dawdle, live lazily, loaf.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A loitering place, or gossiping shop.

Moby Thesaurus

antechamber, anteroom, audience chamber, bar, barroom, bed, bed down, bum, bum around, cocktail lounge, couch, crawl, curl up, dally, divan, do nothing, drift, drinkery, foyer, front room, go to bed, go to rest, goldbrick, goof off, greenroom, grovel, hang around, idle, languish, lay, laze, lazy, lie, lie around, lie down, lie flat, lie limply, lie prone, lie prostrate, loaf, lobby, loiter, loiter about, loll, loll around, lollop around, lounge around, mooch around, moon, moon around, parlor, pothouse, presence chamber, pub, reception room, recline, repose, rest, salon, saloon, saloon bar, settee, settle, settle to rest, side room, sit around, slack, slouch, slouch around, snug down, sofa, sprawl, stand around, studio couch, take it easy, take life easy, tap, taproom, tete-a-tete, throne room, vegetate, vestibule, waiting room, wardroom