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sitting room

sitting room noun: a room in a house where people (residents or guests) pass the time in leisure.

Noun

sitting room (plural sitting rooms)

  1. (UK, especially) A room in a house where people (residents or guests) pass the time in leisure.
    • Near-synonyms: living room, living-room, parlour, parlor, lounge (esp. UK), loungeroom, lounge room (esp. Australia), front room, drawing room
    • “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of...1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Fate of the Artemis”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London...

sitting room meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

sitting room in Tamil

அமர்வுக் கூடம், இளைப்பாறும் அறை

sitting room in Malayalam

lounge, living room, front room
ഇരിപ്പുമുറി, ഇരിപ്പറ, വിരുന്നുകാർ ഇരിക്കുന്ന മുറി, സന്ദർശകമുറി, സൽക്കാരമുറി, ഠാണാവ്

sitting room in Kannada

ಆರಾಮ ಕೋಣೆ, ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ ಕೊಠಡಿ, ದಿವಾನಖಾನೆ

Synonyms of sitting room

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Forms of sitting room

pluralsitting rooms
alternative formsitting-room

Words formed from sitting room

Questions about sitting room

What does sitting room mean?
Sitting room means a room in a house where people (residents or guests) pass the time in leisure.
What is sitting room in Tamil?
Sitting room in Tamil is அமர்வுக் கூடம், இளைப்பாறும் அறை. See Sitting room meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sitting room?
Sitting room is a noun.
What is the plural of sitting room?
The plural of sitting room is sitting rooms.

Words near sitting room in the dictionary

  1. sitting one's butt down
  2. sitting out
  3. sitting over
  4. sitting pretty
  5. sitting right
  6. sitting room
  7. sitting rooms
  8. sitting shiva
  9. sitting still
  10. sitting table
  11. sitting tables

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sitting room (page history and authors); sitting room (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sitting room (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sitting room (Kannada 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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