Lawn vs Lounge - What's the difference?
lawn | lounge |
An open space between woods.
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
* , chapter=1
, title= (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
(uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
(in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
(countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
* 1910 , Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie :
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 a proper noun lawn
is a town in newfoundland and labrador.As a noun lounge is
lounge (waiting room).lawn
English
(wikipedia lawn)Etymology 1
Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English landNoun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
Derived terms
* lawn mower * lawnedEtymology 2
Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.Noun
- The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
- He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.
References
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*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.