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# lounge

«lounge» in Mova's school dictionary: **a comfortable room in a house where people sit and relax…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lounge, lounges); verb (lounge, lounges, lounged, lounging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lounge is a comfortable room in a house where people sit and relax; a living room or sitting room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#m1)

2) A lounge is a waiting room in an airport or hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#m2)

3) To lounge is to sit or lie in a lazy, relaxed way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In British, Australian and New Zealand homes "the lounge" is the main sitting room; Americans more often say "living room". In schools there may be a staff lounge for teachers. Phrases: "departure lounge", "lounge around", "lounge chair".

### examples

- We watched a film in the lounge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#x1)
- The family sat in the lounge after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#x2)
- We waited in the departure lounge before our flight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#x3)
- The teachers have tea in the staff lounge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#x4)
- On Sundays I like to lounge on the sofa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#x5)
- The cat lounged in the sunshine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#x6)
- Stop lounging around and help me tidy up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#x7)
- One day he was passing a splendid mansion, with a crowd of servants lounging in the courtyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/#x8)

### note

Countable noun: one lounge, two lounges. The verb is regular: lounged, lounging (drop the e). It rhymes with "scrounge".

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in a lounge in Auckland, Alfie watches young people in a villa shouting at each other.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lounge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lounge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.