living room

See also: living-room and livingroom

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Etymology

Doublet of Lebensraum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːm/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

living room (countable and uncountable, plural living rooms)

  2. (countable) A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.
    Hypernyms: room < space, place, site, location
    Coordinate terms: bedsit, great room, salon, saloon; family room, den, rec room, dining room; kitchen, bathroom, bedroom
    Near-synonyms: lounge (esp. UK), loungeroom, lounge room (esp. Australia), sitting room, parlour, parlor, foreroom, front room, drawing room, zitkamer
  3. (uncommon, uncountable) Land intended for settlers.
    Synonyms: Lebensraum, living space
    • 2011, John Jackson, chapter 10, in Code Wars: How ‘Ultra’ and ‘Magic’ Led to Allied Victory‎[1], South Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Books Limited, →ISBN, page 58:
      But in the quest for ‘lebensraum’ — the Nazi quest for living room for the German people — he was to find to his ultimate cost the Russians were made of sterner stuff than he had envisaged.

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