sitting room : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sitting room	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sitting room
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sitting room n 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]:
Sitting \Sit"ting\, n. 1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat. 2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings. 3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc. 4. The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission. The sitting closed in great agitation. --Macaulay. 5. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc. For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting. --Locke. 6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls. The male bird . . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting. --Addison. {Sitting room}, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.