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Parlor definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

P`ARLOR, n. Primarily, the apartment in a nunnery where the nuns are permitted to meet and converse with each other; hence with us, the room in a house which the family usually occupy when they have no company, as distinguished from a drawing room intended for the reception of company, or from a dining room, when a distinct apartment is allotted for that purpose. In most houses, the parlor is also the dining room.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received [syn: parlor, parlour]
2: a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax [syn: living room, living-room, sitting room, front room, parlor, parlour]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English parlour, from Anglo-French, from parler Date: 13th century 1. a room used primarily for conversation or the reception of guests: as a. a room in a private dwelling for the entertainment of guests b. a conference chamber or private reception room c. a room in an inn, hotel, or club for conversation or semiprivate uses 2. any of various business places <a funeral parlor> <a beauty parlor> II. adjective Date: 1552 1. used in or suitable for a parlor <parlor furniture> 2. a. fostered or advocated in comfortable seclusion without consequent action or application to affairs <parlor bolshevism> b. given to or characterized by fostering or advocating something (as a doctrine) in such a manner <parlor socialist>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Parlor Par"lor, n. [OE. parlour, parlur, F. parloir, LL. parlatorium. See Parley.] [Written also parlour.] A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. Specifically: (a) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. --Piers Plowman. (b) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor. (c) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained. Note: ``In England people who have a drawing-room no longer call it a parlor, as they called it of old and till recently.'' --Fitzed. Hall. Parlor car. See Palace car, under Car.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

par'-ler: This word in the King James Version, occurring in Jud 3:20-25; 1Sa 9:22; 1Ch 28:11, is in every instance changed in the Revised Version: in Judges into "upper room," in 1 Samuel into "guest-chamber," in 1 Chronicles into "chambers," representing as many Hebrew words.

See HOUSE.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Sitting-room, living-room.

Moby Thesaurus

agency, atelier, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, best room, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, desk, drawing room, establishment, facility, firm, foreroom, front room, house, installation, institution, living room, loft, lounge, organization, reception room, salon, saloon, shop, sitting room, solarium, studio, sun parlor, sunroom, sweatshop, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable