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living-room

living-room is the alternative form of living room.

Meaning of living room

Noun

living room (countable and uncountable, plural living rooms)

  1. (countable) A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.
    • Near-synonyms: lounge (esp. UK), loungeroom, lounge room (esp. Australia), sitting room, parlour, parlor, foreroom, front room, drawing room, zitkamer
  2. (uncommon, uncountable) Land intended for settlers.
    • 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.2011, John Jackson, chapter 10, in Code Wars: How ‘Ultra’ and ‘Magic’ Led to Allied Victory, South Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Books Limited, →ISBN, page 58

Forms of living-room

pluralliving-rooms

Questions about living-room

What is living-room the alternative form of?
Living-room is the alternative form of living room.

Words near living-room in the dictionary

  1. living with oneself
  2. living within oneself
  3. living-dining room
  4. living-dining rooms
  5. living-impaired
  6. living-room
  7. living-roomful
  8. living-roomfuls
  9. living-rooms
  10. living-roomy
  11. livingest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: living-room (page history and authors); living room (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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