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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)

  1. (intransitive) 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
  2. 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

See all 9 meanings of lounge

Noun

lounging (plural loungings)

  1. 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

pluralloungings

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

  1. loungeth
  2. loungewear
  3. loungey
  4. loungier
  5. loungiest
  6. lounging
  7. lounging cap
  8. lounging caps
  9. loungingly
  10. loungings
  11. loungy

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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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