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Definition of Lounger

1. Noun. Someone who wastes time.

2. Noun. An armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it.

3. Noun. An article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear.

Definition of Lounger

1. n. One who lounges; an idler.

Definition of Lounger

1. Noun. One who lounges; an idler. ¹

2. Noun. A chair made for lounging. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lounger

1. one that lounges [n -S] - See also: lounges

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lounger

lounds louned lounge lounge-lizard lounge about lounge around lounge car lounge chair lounge lizard lounge lizards

lounge music lounge suit loungecore lounged loungelike lounger (current term) loungeroom loungerooms loungers lounges

loungewear loungewears loungey loungier loungiest lounging lounging jacket lounging pajamas lounging pyjamas lounging robe

Literary usage of Lounger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Putnam's & the Reader (1909)
"lounger 504 Emerson's Foot-note Person, by TW Higginson, 53 Essential Life, ... Thomas lounger, 115 Harter. Eugene Wendell, author of A Plea for Critics. ..."

2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1787)
"... the lounger is much inferior to the Mirror. We perceive many marks of a ... in the lounger. The colonel, as well as the knight, had been a man of gaiety ..."

3. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1804)
"... and is not half fo genteel; indeed, the lounger ought to be caned that ufes it. With this valuable and Jinking piece of timber in your hand, ..."

4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"Mirror ; and who afterwards gave to the world another work of a' similar kind, the lounger, published in 1785 and 1786. To these papers he was a very ..."

5. America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from by George Augustus Sala (1883)
"v/— •/'-• ;; A CROSS-ROAD lounger. The ordinary accessories to the roadside shanties are dwarf vegetation, broken fences stencilled over with advertisements ..."

6. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"... known contributions to literature consist of ten papers in the ' Mirror ' and nine in the ' lounger.' [Notice of Lord Abercromby by Henry Mackenzie in ..."

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