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Lounge vs Hall - What's the difference?

lounge | hall |

As nouns the difference between lounge and hall

is that lounge is a waiting room in an office, airport etc while hall is a corridor; a hallway.

As a verb lounge

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

As a proper noun Hall is

{{surname|British and Scandinavian topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived in or near a hall.

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

    Anagrams

    * ----

    hall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A corridor; a hallway.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
  • A meeting room.
  • A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
    • (Cowell)
  • A building providing student accommodation at a university.
  • The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  • (label) Cleared passageway through a crowd.
  • * (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
    • A hall ! a hall!

    Derived terms

    * great hall * hall monitor * hall of fame * hall of shame