To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas.
To walk or go in a leisurely manner.
When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.
A place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
He […] prevailed on Captain Musgrave to introduce him to a family, where he supposed he might find a monstrous good lounge for the rest of the time he was to be quartered in the neighbourhood.
The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from French s'allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer (“to walk along”). Compare also German lungern (“to hang or lounge around, linger”).
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That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.
The living room or sitting room of a house.
Let us adjourn to the lounge.