In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English), lounge (British English), sitting room (British English), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment.
You can also call a living room a lounge, a sitting room, a front room, or a parlor. It's distinguished from other rooms in a house by what it's used for.
UK. the room in a house or apartment that is used for relaxing and entertaining guests in: All the family were sitting in the lounge watching television.
You may occasionally hear an upper-middle-class person say living room, although this is frowned upon. Only middle-middles and below say lounge.
According to google "lounge room" is the Australian name for living room, as well as Cambridge dictionary.
Or a lounge? A: Ah, well, the main two players worldwide are “couch” and “sofa”. Sofa is more common in Britain, while couch is preferred in North America, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
Couch is predominantly used in North America, Australia, South Africa, and Ireland, whereas the terms sofa and settee (U and non-U) are most commonly used in the United Kingdom and India. The word couch originated in Middle English from the Old French noun couche, which derived from the verb meaning "to lie down".
The main room in an American home, the room where people usually sit and do things together like watch television and entertain visitors, is called a living room. The British name for this room, sitting room, sounds rather quaint and old-fashioned to American ears.
Below is the UK transcription for 'lounge': Modern IPA: láwnʤ Traditional IPA: laʊnʤ 1 syllable: "LOWNJ"
There is more than one word that means living room in French. La salle de séjour and le salon can both be used.
banquette. studio couch. recamier. tête-à-tête. love seat.
Lounge - Our living room is called the lounge. We also say living room sometimes but lounge is probably more common.
During the Victorian era, the parlor was the front room of every middle and high-class homes and for some, used exclusively to receive and entertain guest and for others, used as an environment for family intimacy.
' From John Lewis' customer research based on geographical location, Scotland, the North East and Yorkshire call this space the living room, but those in the South West are more likely to call it the sitting room. Meanwhile in Wales, more than one in three people refer to it as the lounge.
Loo. Despite being a very British word for toilet, 'loo' is actually derived from the French phrase 'guardez l'eau', which means 'watch out for the water'.
The master bedroom is the biggest / main bedroom. A tiny bedroom may be called a boxroom or nursery. An additional bedroom intended for guests is called a guest room.
In the UK, sofa is by far the most popular term, settee is something of an outdated term for the same thing, and couch is rarely used, except perhaps as one of the many questionable 'Americanisms' that have entered our vocabulary, and technically, the 'couch' as a kind of reclining seat used by psychiatrists to lay ...
In Victorian England, “settee” would have been a common enough term for a bench or smallish sofa.
In Canada, a chesterfield is a couch or sofa; that is, a large, cushioned seat that can fit more than one person. Note that if the couch can seat exactly two people, that type of couch is typically referred to as a loveseat.
dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin". The term derives from the word "Eskimo".
Some people in Britain and Australia refer to their main evening meal as "tea" rather than "dinner" or "supper", but generally, with the exception of Scotland and Northern England, "tea" refers to a light meal or a snack.