Parlor

Quick meaning: Parlor is a noun meaning A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.

Meaning

A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.

More Meanings

1. A shed used for milking cattle; a milking parlor.
2. (dated) A comfortable room in a public house.
3. (chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio.
4. (dated outside Mid-Atlantic US) The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
5. (archaic) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.

Example Sentences

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There had been a surprise party and some had entered his hotel parlour to get drink; before he was aware of it the accordion was being played in the room.

So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.

Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way.

Word Forms

• parlors
• parlour

Synonyms for parlor

Depending on context, synonyms include lounge, livingroom, parlour.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include livingroom, parlour, room, salon, foyer, showroom.

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