lounge
/ˈlaʊ̯nd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
Intransitive verb
noun
A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
Archaic
noun
A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
Australian usage; Archaic
noun
A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
noun
A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
Example Sentences
- "We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas."
- "We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics."
- "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"
- "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."
- "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."
- "As she lounged past Leila's car she cast an insolent glance at the Irish girl."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlaʊ̯nd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈlaʊ̯nd͡ʒ/
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- Archaic
- Australian usage
- British usage