Lounge vs Longe - What's the difference?
lounge | longe |
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
(US) To work a horse in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.
A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and is used to control the animal while longeing.
(obsolete) A lunge; a thrust.
The training ground for a horse.
As a noun lounge
is lounge (waiting room).As a verb longe is
.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.
Derived terms
* chaise lounge * cocktail lounge * liquor lounge * lounge bag * lounge chair * lounge lizard * lounge music * lounge roomAnagrams
* ----longe
English
(Longeing)Alternative forms
* lunge (UK)Verb
(d)Noun
(en noun)- (Smollett)
- (Farrow)