What is another word for drawing-room?

Pronunciation: [dɹˈɔːɪŋɹˈuːm] (IPA)

Drawing-room is a term that refers to a formal living room where people entertain guests. There are several synonyms for this term that are commonly used in literature and conversation. A parlour is a similar term that suggests a more intimate and cozy space, while a sitting-room conveys a space that is comfortable for spending time in for rest, relaxation or reading. The term lounge suggests an area for relaxation, while a salon emphasizes a place meant for socializing and discussion. Others include reception room, living room, entertainment room, and family room, which are all slightly different from drawing-room and can serve different purposes based on their design and layout.

What are the hypernyms for Drawing-room?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Drawing-room

  • This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
    Edvard Munch
  • This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
    Virginia Woolf
  • A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • No, what was sad in his case was that he, who didn’t care for carved oak, should have his drawing-room panelled with it, while people who do care for it have to pay enormous prices to get it. It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want.
    Jerome K. Jerome
  • Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.
    George Meredith

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