living room
/ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːm/
living room noun: a room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.
Noun
living room (countable and uncountable, plural living rooms)
- 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
- We relax in the living room.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Synonyms:
- lounge, loungeroom, lounge room, sitting room, parlour, parlor, foreroom, front room, drawing room, zitkamer
- 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
- Synonyms:
- Lebensraum, living space
living room meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
living room in Hindi
- room in a private house
- बैठकख़ाना baiṭhakxānā
living room in Tamil
- வாழறை
living room in Urdu
- room in a private house
- بَیْٹَھک خانَہ bayṭhak xāna, نشیمن naśeman
living room in Telugu
- room in a private house
- దేశం గది dēśaṁ gadi
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- living room in Malayalam
- സ്വീകരണമുറി, ഇരുപ്പുമുറി, പൊതു ഇരുപ്പുമുറി, ഇരിപ്പറ
- living room in Gujarati
- દીવાનખાનું dīvānkhānũ
- living room in Tagalog
- salas
- living room in Arabic
- غُرْفَةْ الاِسْتِقْبَال ḡurfat al-istiqbāl, غُرْفَةْ جُلُوس ḡurfat julūs
- living room in Indonesian
- ruang keluarga
- living room in Thai
- ห้องนั่งเล่น hɔ̂ng-nâng-lên
- living room in Vietnamese
- phòng khách
- living room in Myanmar
- ဧည့်ခန်း e-ny.hkan:
Synonyms of living room
2 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of living room
| plural | living rooms |
|---|---|
| alternative form | livingroom |
| alternative form | living-room |
Origin of living room
Doublet of Lebensraum.
Words formed from living room
Questions about living room
- What does living room mean?
- Living room means a room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.
- What is living room in Hindi?
- Living room in Hindi is बैठकख़ाना (baiṭhakxānā). See Living room meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is living room?
- Living room is a noun.
- How do you pronounce living room?
- Living room is pronounced /ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːm/.
- What is the plural of living room?
- The plural of living room is living rooms.
Words near living room in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: living room (page history and authors); living room (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); living room (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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