sitting room

See also: sitting-room

English

Alternative forms

• sitting-room

Noun

sitting room (plural sitting rooms)

1. (British) A living-room; a room in a house where people pass the time in leisure.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Fate of the Artemis‎^[1]:

     “[…] 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 Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”

Synonyms

• living-room
• living room
• lounge

Hypernyms

• room

Translations

living room — see living room