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Lounge vs Settee - What's the difference?

lounge | settee |

As nouns the difference between lounge and settee

is that lounge is lounge (waiting room) while settee is a long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa or settee can be a vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the mediterranean.

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

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    settee

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
  • * 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.
    See also
    * couch * divan * sofa

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) , (scitie).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean.

    • Anagrams

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