Saunter vs Lounge - What's the difference?
saunter | lounge |
To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace
* Masson
A leisurely walk or stroll.
* 1814 , Elizabeth Hervey, Amabel: Volume 1 (page 53)
A leisurely pace.
(obsolete) A place for sauntering or strolling.
* Young
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 saunter and lounge
is that saunter is a leisurely walk or stroll while lounge is lounge (waiting room).As a verb saunter
is to stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace.saunter
English
Verb
(en verb)- One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream.
Synonyms
* amble * stroll * wanderNoun
(en noun)- Caroline
- That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town.
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Anagrams
*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.