lounge Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an upholstered seat for more than one person
    sofa; couch.
  2. noun a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait
    waiting room; waiting area.
  3. verb sit or recline comfortably
    • He was lounging on the sofa
  4. verb be about
    loaf; footle; mess about; lallygag; linger; lollygag; lurk; tarry; mill about; hang around; loiter; mill around.
    • The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square
    • Who is this man that is hanging around the department?

WordNet

Lounge intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. lungis a tall, slow, awkward fellow, OF. longis, longin, said to be fr. Longinus, the name of the centurion who pierced the body of Christ, but with reference also to L. longus long. Cf. Long, a.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Lounged ; present participle & verbal noun Lounging
Definitions
  1. To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
    We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. J. Hannay.
Lounge noun
Definitions
  1. An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.
    She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's whose shop erved as a fashionable lounge. Miss Edgeworth.
  2. A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.

Webster 1913