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lounger

lounger noun: one who lounges; an idler.

lounger: one who lounges; an idler
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Noun

lounger (plural loungers)

  1. One who lounges; an idler.
    • Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15
    • These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into...1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236
  2. A long chair with a reclinable support, made for lounging.
    • You shoulda heard me in the lounger / Telling people what they was2020, “I Don't Belong”, in A Hero's Death, performed by Fontaines D.C.

lounger meaning in Tamil

lounger in Tamil

வீணன்

Forms of lounger

pluralloungers

Origin of lounger

From lounge + -er.

Words formed from lounger

Questions about lounger

What does lounger mean?
Lounger means one who lounges; an idler.
What is lounger in Tamil?
Lounger in Tamil is வீணன். See Lounger meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lounger?
Lounger is a noun.
What is the plural of lounger?
The plural of lounger is loungers.

Words near lounger in the dictionary

  1. lounge-lizard
  2. lounge-lizards
  3. loungecore
  4. lounged
  5. loungelike
  6. lounger
  7. loungeroom
  8. loungerooms
  9. loungers
  10. lounges
  11. loungest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lounger (page history and authors); lounger (Tamil 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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