parlor

See also: pärlor and parlør

English

Alternative forms

• parlour (British)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English parlour, from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from the verb parler (“to speak”); compare Medieval Latin parlātōrium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːlə/
• (General American) enPR: pärʹlər, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹlɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lə(ɹ)

Noun

parlor (plural parlors)

1. The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

2. (archaic) 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.
3. (archaic) A comfortable room in a public house.
4. (chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio.
5. A shop or other business selling goods specified by context.
6. A shed used for milking cattle.
7. (Philippines) Short for beauty parlor.

Synonyms

• (room): living room
• (room): sitting room
• (room): drawing room

Hypernyms

• room

Derived terms

• beauty parlor
• beer parlor
• betting parlor
• funeral parlor
• horse parlor
• ice cream parlor
• massage parlor
• parlor game
• parlor guitar
• parlor trick
• parlormaid
• pigs in the parlour
• pizza parlor
• tanning parlor
• tattoo parlor

 

Translations

room for talking, room for entertaining guests, living room

• Bulgarian: приемна (bg) f (priemna), салон (bg) m (salon)
• French: parloir (fr) m, salon (fr) m
• German: Wohnzimmer (de) n, Salon (de) m
• Japanese: 客室 (ja) (kyakushitsu), 客間 (ja) (きゃくま, kyakuma)
• Maori: pāra
• Russian: приёмная (ru) f (prijómnaja)
• Scots: chaumer
• Spanish: sala (es) f, sala de estar f
• Swedish: finrum n, salong (sv) c

drawing room

• Bulgarian: всекидневна (bg) f (vsekidnevna)
• Esperanto: salono
• Finnish: salonki (fi)
• French: salon (fr) m
• German: Empfangszimmer (de) n, Salon (de) m, Sprechzimmer (de) n, Stube (de) f, Wohnzimmer (de) n
• Hungarian: szalon (hu), társalgó (hu)
• Lithuanian: svetainė (lt)
• Norwegian: dagligstue (no) m or f, dagstue m or f, stue (no) m or f
• Swedish: vardagsrum (sv) n
• Turkish: oturma odası (tr), salon (tr)

comfortable room in a public house

• French: salon (fr) m
• Swedish: salong (sv) c

shop or other business selling goods specified by context.

• French: salon (fr) m
• Swedish: salong (sv) c, bar (sv) c, butik (sv) c

shed used for milking cattle

• Bulgarian: доилна (bg) f (doilna)
• French: salle de traite f

Further reading

• parlor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• parlor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• parlor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Cebuano

Etymology

Short for English beauty parlor.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: par‧lor

Noun

parlor

1. a beauty parlor