waiting room

English

Noun

waiting room (plural waiting rooms)

1. A room in some public place for people to wait.

   Hyponyms: ladies' room, (for women, historical) women's room, (for men, historical) gentlemen's room

   • 1817, Henry Horne, Elements of criticism:

     In the third place, by its situation it serves only for a waiting-room, and a passage to the principal apartments, instead of being reserved, as it ought to be, for entertaining company […]

Related terms

• anteroom
• green room

 

Translations

room

• Armenian: սպասասրահ (hy) (spasasrah)
• Basque: itxarongela
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (in airport) 候機室／候机室 (zh) (hòujīshì), 候机室 (zh) (hòujīshì), (in hospital, clinic) 候診室／候诊室 (zh) (hòuzhěnshì), 候诊室 (zh) (hòuzhěnshì), (at bus/train station) 候車室／候车室 (zh) (hòuchēshì), 候车室 (zh) (hòuchēshì), (reception) 接待室 (zh) (jiēdàishì), 等待室 (děngdàishì)

• Czech: čekárna (cs) f
• Danish: venteværelse (da) n
• Dutch: wachtkamer (nl) f
• Esperanto: atendejo
• Finnish: odotushuone (fi)
• French: salle d’attente (fr) f, chambre d’attente f, salle des pas perdus (fr) f
• Georgian: მოსაცდელი (mosacdeli) ('mosa'tsdeli)
• German: Wartezimmer (de) n, Warteraum (de) m
• Greek: αίθουσα αναμονής f (aíthousa anamonís)
• Hungarian: váróterem (hu)
• Icelandic: biðstofa (is) f
• Ido: varteyo (io)
• Irish: seomra feithimh
• Italian: sala d'aspetto f, sala d'attesa f
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• Japanese: 待合室 (まちあいしつ, machiaishitsu)
• Kazakh: күту бөлмесі (kütu bölmesı)
• Korean: 대기실 (ko) (daegisil)
• Maori: rūma tatari
• Navajo: naʼiiztání
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: venterom n

  Nynorsk: venterom n

• Polish: poczekalnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sala de espera f
• Romanian: sală de așteptare f
• Russian: зал ожида́ния m (zal ožidánija), (in an office) приёмная (ru) f (prijómnaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-feitheimh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чекао́ница f

  Roman: čekaónica (sh) f

• Spanish: sala de espera f
• Swedish: väntrum (sv) n (especially at the doctor's office), väntsal (sv) c (especially at a train station)
• Turkish: bekleme odası (tr)
• Volapük: stebedalecem (vo)
• Welsh: ystafell aros (cy)

Further reading

• waiting room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia