parlor
UK/ˈpɑːlə//ˈpɑɹlɚ/
parlor noun: the living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room. Also the ellipsis of beauty parlor.
Noun
parlor (plural parlors)
- The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
- So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- living room, sitting room, drawing room, lounge
- The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.
- A comfortable room in a public house.
- Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 135
- There had been a surprise party and some had entered his hotel parlour to get drink; before he was aware of it the accordion was being played in the room.1957 July 4, The Nepean Times, Penrith, NSW, page 2, column 2
- A covered open-air patio.
- A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.
- tattoo parlor pizza parlor ice cream parlor
- A shed used for milking cattle; a milking parlor.
Adjective
parlor (not comparable)
- Used in or appropriate for a parlor.
- Parlor painting.
- Advocating something in a secluded place without actual involvement or action.
- Parlor socialism.
Also used as
parlor is also the ellipsis of beauty parlor.
parlor meaning in Urdu and Punjabi
parlor in Urdu
- پارلور
parlor in Punjabi
- ਪਾਰਲੋਰ
Examples of parlor in a sentence
- Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.
- The gang and I went to the pizza parlor to order some pizza and kill a little time.
- But why wouldn’t people want to meet up in a gigantic ice-cream parlor?” questioned Mx.
Synonyms of parlor
Forms of parlor
| plural | parlors |
|---|---|
| alternative form | parlour |
Origin of parlor
Inherited from Middle English parlour, from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from the verb parler (“to speak”); compare Medieval Latin parlātōrium. Doublet of parloir. Displaced native Old English sprǣchūs.
Words formed from parlor
- beauty parlor
- beer parlor
- betting parlor
- chili parlor
- funeral parlor
- horse parlor
- ice-cream parlor
- ice cream parlor
- massage parlor
- milking parlor
- nonparlor
- oyster parlor
- parlor car
- parlor game
- parlor-game
- parlor guitar
- parlor house
- parlorish
- parlor LARP
- parlorless
- parlormaid
- parlor maid
- parlor maple
- parlor match
- parlor palm
- parlor pink
- parlor trick
- pigs in the parlour
- pizza parlor
- sky parlor
- sun parlor
- tanning parlor
- tattoo parlor
Phrases with parlor
Words that rhyme with parlor
Questions about parlor
- What does parlor mean?
- Parlor means the living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
- What is parlor in Urdu?
- Parlor in Urdu is پارلور. See Parlor meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is parlor?
- Parlor can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce parlor?
- Parlor is pronounced /ˈpɑːlə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of parlor?
- The plural of parlor is parlors.
Words near parlor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: parlor (page history and authors); parlor (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parlor (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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