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dEMOK Donating Member (833 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 02:15 AM
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"Lounge" defined. What's Your Choice of Definitions??? (updated & simplified)
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lounge /laʊndʒ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, lounged, loung·ing, noun
–verb (used without object)

1. to pass time idly and indolently.
2. to rest or recline indolently; loll: We lounged in the sun all afternoon.
3. to go or move in a leisurely, indolent manner; saunter (usually fol. by around, along, off, etc.).
–verb (used with object) 4. to pass (time) in lounging (usually fol. by away or out): to lounge away the afternoon.
–noun 5. a sofa for reclining, sometimes backless, having a headrest at one end.
6. a place for sitting, waiting, smoking, etc., esp. a large public room, as in a hotel, theater, or air terminal, often with adjoining washrooms.
7. a section on a train, plane, or ship having various club or social facilities.
8. a cocktail lounge.
9. Archaic. the act or a period of lounging.
10. Archaic. a lounging gait...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lounge

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