Airport vs Lounge - What's the difference?
airport | lounge |
An airfield (a place where airplanes can take off and land), including one or more runways and one or more passenger terminals.
A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
A domestic living room.
* 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
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)
To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
* J. Hannay
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)lounge
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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 alsoVerb
(loung)- We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.