living room

See also: living-room and livingroom

English

Alternative forms

• livingroom
• living-room

Etymology

Doublet of Lebensraum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

living room (countable and uncountable, plural living rooms)

2. (countable) A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.

   Hypernyms: room < space, place, site, location

   Coordinate terms: bedsit, great room, salon, saloon; family room, den, rec room, dining room; kitchen, bathroom, bedroom

   Near-synonyms: lounge (esp. UK), loungeroom, lounge room (esp. Australia), sitting room, parlour, parlor, foreroom, front room, drawing room, zitkamer

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     We relax in the living room.

3. (uncommon, uncountable) Land intended for settlers.

   Synonyms: Lebensraum, living space

   • 2011, John Jackson, chapter 10, in Code Wars: How ‘Ultra’ and ‘Magic’ Led to Allied Victory‎^[1], South Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Books Limited, →ISBN, page 58:

     But in the quest for ‘lebensraum’ — the Nazi quest for living room for the German people — he was to find to his ultimate cost the Russians were made of sterner stuff than he had envisaged.

Derived terms

• living-dining room
• living-roomful
• living room group
• living-roomy
• pope's living room

Translations

room in a private house

• Arabic: غُرْفَةْ الاِسْتِقْبَال f (ḡurfat al-istiqbāl), غُرْفَةْ جُلُوس f (ḡurfat julūs)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܵܠܘܿܢܵܐ m (ṣālōnā), ܬܲܘܵܢ ܝܬ݂ܵܒ݂ܬܵܐ m (tawwān ṯāḇtā), ܬܲܘܵܢ ܐܲܪ̈ܚܹܐ m (tawwān arḥē)

• Armenian: հյուրասենյակ (hy) (hyurasenyak)
• Azerbaijani: qonaq otağı, əl otağı
• Basque: egongela
• Belarusian: гасцёўня f (hascjównja), гасьцёўня f (hasʹcjównja), гасці́ная f (hascínaja), гасьці́ная f (hasʹcínaja), сало́н m (salón), салён m (saljón)
• Bulgarian: дне́вна (bg) f (dnévna)
• Burmese: ဧည့်ခန်း (my) (e-ny.hkan:)
• Catalan: sala d'estar f, cambra d'estar f, sala (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 客廳 / 客厅 (zh) (kètīng), 起居室 (zh) (qǐjūshì)

• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: ɓanɗa class 5/6

• Crimean Tatar: ayat
• Czech: obývací pokoj m, obývák m (colloquial)
• Danish: stue c, dagligstue (da) c
• Dutch: woonkamer (nl) f, huiskamer (nl) f, kamer (nl) f, zitkamer (nl) f, living (nl) m, voorzaal m or f (Suriname)
• Esperanto: salono, loĝoĉambro, vivoĉambro
• Estonian: elutuba (et)
• Faroese: stova f
• Finnish: olohuone (fi)
• French: séjour (fr) m, salon (fr) m, salle de séjour (fr) f
• Georgian: სასტუმრო ოთახი (sasṭumro otaxi), მისაღები ოთახი (misaɣebi otaxi), საცხოვრებელი ოთახი (sacxovrebeli otaxi)
• German: Wohnzimmer (de) n, Salon (de) m (Austrian)

  Alemannic German: Schtube f

• Greek: σαλοτραπεζαρία (el) f (salotrapezaría), σαλόνι (el) n (salóni)
• Greenlandic: ini, inersuaq
• Gujarati: દીવાનખાનું n (dīvānkhānũ)
• Hebrew: סָלוֹן (he) (salón)
• Hindi: बैठकख़ाना m (baiṭhakxānā)
• Hungarian: nappali (hu)
• Icelandic: stofa (is) f
• Indonesian: ruang keluarga
• Ingrian: pertti, tupa
• Interlingua: salon
• Irish: seomra suí
• Italian: soggiorno (it) m, salotto (it) m
• Japanese: 居間 (ja) (いま, ima), リビング (ja) (ribingu)
• Khoekhoe: ǁkhan ǃnâ-oms
• Korean: 거실(居室) (ko) (geosil)
• Latin: sessōrium n
• Latvian: viesistaba f, dzīvojamā istaba f
• Luxembourgish: Stuff
• Macedonian: дневна соба f (dnevna soba), дневна f (dnevna) (ellipsis)
• Maltese: salott
• Māori: rūma noho
• Norman: salle f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stue (no) m or f, oppholdsrom n

  Nynorsk: stue f, opphaldsrom n

• Occitan: salon, sala (oc) f
• Old English: hēahclēofa m
• Oromo: gorduba
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: نِشیمَن (nešiman), اُتاقِ نِشیمَن (otâġ-e nešiman), پَذیرائی (pazirâ'i), سالُن (sâlon)

• Plautdietsch: Spaziastow f, Wonstow f
• Polish: salon (pl) m, duży pokój (pl) m, pokój gościnny (pl) m, pokój dzienny m
• Portuguese: sala de estar (pt) f
• Quechua: samana wasi
• Romanian: sufragerie (ro) f, cameră de zi f, living n
• Romansch: stiva f
• Russian: гости́ная (ru) f (gostínaja), зал (ru) m (zal), сало́н (ru) m (salón)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: beaivelatnja

  Southern Sami: ståapa, ståapoe

• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-còmhnaidh m, seòmar-suidhe m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дневна соба f

  Latin: dnevna soba f

• Slovak: obývacia izba f
• Slovene: dnevna soba f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: bydleńska śpa f

• Spanish: salón (es) m, sala de estar f, sala (es) f, living (es) m (Argentina)
• Swahili: sebule (sw)
• Swedish: vardagsrum (sv) n, finrum (sv) n, stora rummet (sv) n (mostly Western and Southern Swedish)
• Tagalog: salas
• Telugu: దేశం గది (dēśaṁ gadi)
• Thai: ห้องนั่งเล่น (hɔ̂ng-nâng-lên)
• Turkish: oturma odası (tr), salon (tr)
• Ukrainian: віта́льня (uk) f (vitálʹnja), зал m (zal), сало́н (uk) m (salón)
• Urdu: بَیْٹَھک خانَہ m (bayṭhak xāna)
• Vietnamese: phòng khách
• Welsh: lolfa (cy) f, ystafell fyw f
• Yiddish: וווינצימער m (voyntsimer), זאַל f (zal)

Further reading

• living room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia