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lounge | x |

As a noun lounge

is lounge (waiting room).

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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

    * ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----