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drawing room

drawing room noun: any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.

drawing room: any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room
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Noun (1)

drawing room (plural drawing rooms)

  1. (UK, somewhat dated outside of India) Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
    • It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. (UK) A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.
  3. (UK) A levée where ladies are presented at court or to society.
    • The concluding ceremony came off at twelve o’clock on the day of departure; when Miss Twinkleton, supported by Mrs. Tisher, held a drawing-room in her own apartment (the globes already covered with brown Holland), where glasses of white-wine and plates of cut pound-cake were discovered on the table.1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC
    • [A] great deal of conversation had taken place about the drawing-room, and whether or not young ladies wore powder as well as hoops when presented, and whether she was to have that honour: to the Lord Mayor's ball she knew she was to go.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
  4. (US) A private room on a railroad sleeping car.

Noun (2)

drawing room (plural drawing rooms)

  1. A room where engineers draw up plans and patterns.
    Synonyms:
    drawing office

drawing room meaning in Urdu, Kannada and Gujarati

drawing room in Urdu

room where visitors may be entertained
دیوان خانہ dīvān xānā, نشست گاہ niśist-gāh

drawing room in Kannada

ದಿವಾನ ಖಾನೆ, ಸ್ವಾಗತ ಕೊಠಡಿ, ಭೇಟಿ ಕೊಠಡಿ, ಡ್ರಾಯಿಂಗ್ ರೂಮು

drawing room in Gujarati

room where visitors may be entertained
દીવાનખાનું dīvānkhānũ

Synonyms of drawing room

Forms of drawing room

pluraldrawing rooms
alternative formdrawing-room
alternative formdrawingroom

Origin of drawing room

Shortening of withdrawing room.

Questions about drawing room

What does drawing room mean?
Drawing room means any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
What is drawing room in Urdu?
Drawing room in Urdu is دیوان خانہ (dīvān xānā), نشست گاہ (niśist-gāh). See Drawing room meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is drawing room?
Drawing room is a noun.
What is the plural of drawing room?
The plural of drawing room is drawing rooms.

Words near drawing room in the dictionary

  1. drawing one's last breath
  2. drawing out
  3. drawing pin
  4. drawing pins
  5. drawing rein
  6. drawing room
  7. drawing rooms
  8. drawing slate
  9. drawing stumps
  10. drawing table
  11. drawing tables

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drawing room (page history and authors); drawing room (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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