Thesaurus: parlor

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1. n. A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
2. n. The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
3. n. In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.
4. n. Commonly, in the United States, a room">drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.
5. n. reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received
6. n. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
7. A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. Specifically: (a) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. Piers Plowman. (b) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing- room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor. (c) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained. Note: "In England people who have a drawing-room no longer call it a parlor, as they called it of old and till recently." Fitzed. Hall. Parior car. See Palace car, under Car.
8. A room for business or social conversation, for the receptionof guests, etc. Specifically:(a) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates arepermitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors andfriends from without. Piers Plowman.(b) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and forfamiliar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having fewapartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually onthe ground floor.(c) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room wherevisitors are received and entertained.
9. n:100 n. reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received