lounging
lounging is the present participle and gerund of lounge.
Meaning of lounge
Verb
lounge (third-person singular simple present lounges, present participle lounging, simple past and past participle lounged)
- To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
- We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas.
- Synonyms:
- loll
- To walk or go in a leisurely manner.
- When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 287
Noun
lounging (plural loungings)
- The act of one who lounges.
- It is a world of idle 45-minute loungings in the basement waiting for the machine to finish its cycle […]2013, Graham Harman, Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism
Forms of lounging
| plural | loungings |
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Words formed from lounging
Phrases with lounging
Questions about lounging
- What does lounging mean?
- Lounging means the act of one who lounges.
- What is lounging the present participle and gerund of?
- Lounging is the present participle and gerund of lounge.
- What part of speech is lounging?
- Lounging is a noun.
- What is the plural of lounging?
- The plural of lounging is loungings.
Words near lounging in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lounging (page history and authors); lounge (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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