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Airport vs Lounge - What's the difference?

airport | lounge |

As nouns the difference between airport and lounge

is that airport is an airfield (a place where airplanes can take off and land), including one or more runways and one or more passenger terminals while lounge is a waiting room in an office, airport etc.

As a verb lounge is

to relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

airport

English

Noun

(wikipedia airport) (en noun)
  • An airfield (a place where airplanes can take off and land), including one or more runways and one or more passenger terminals.
  • lounge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
  • A domestic living room.
  • * 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
  • The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
  • An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
  • A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair .
  • The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
  • * 1849 , The Knickerbocker (volume 33, page 198)
  • That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.

    Synonyms

    * (living room) loungeroom (Australia ) * (pub) See also

    Verb

    (loung)
  • To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
  • * J. Hannay
  • We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.

    Derived terms

    * chaise lounge * cocktail lounge * liquor lounge * lounge bag * lounge chair * lounge lizard * lounge music * lounge room

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