parlor
/ˈpɑɹlɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
noun
The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.
Archaic
noun
A shed used for milking cattle; a milking parlor.
adj
Used in or appropriate for a parlor.
Example Sentences
- "So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all."
- "Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way."
- "There had been a surprise party and some had entered his hotel parlour to get drink; before he was aware of it the accordion was being played in the room."
- "tattoo parlor pizza parlor ice cream parlor"
- "Parlor painting."
- "Parlor socialism."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɑɹlɚ/
- British English: /ˈpɑːlə/