parlor : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: parlor	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for parlor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parlor n reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received Synonym(s): parlor, parlour a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax Synonym(s): living room, living-room, sitting room, front room, parlor, parlour
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Parlor \Par"lor\, n. [OE. parlour, parlur, F. parloir, LL. parlatorium. See {Parley}.] [Written also {parlour}.] 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: [bd]In England people who have a drawing-room no longer call it a parlor, as they called it of old and till recently.[b8] --Fitzed. Hall. {Parlor car}. See {Palace car}, under {Car}.