living room

American  

noun

• living rooms
  plural

1. a room in a home used, especially by a family, for leisure activities, entertaining guests, etc.; parlor.

2. Lebensraum.

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living room British  

noun

1. a room in a private house or flat used for relaxation and entertainment of guests

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• living rooms
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of living room

First recorded in 1815–25

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Compare meaning

How does living-room compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• great room vs. living room

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Example Sentences

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living room

The immersive sound of a good movie theater ensures that seeing this one at the cinema is likely to be far more powerful than watching it in the average living room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

For example, instead of a living room, they fashioned a swanky cocktail lounge complete with a custom bar, a Yamaha piano, and retro swivel chairs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

But it also helps us understand why a crumpled sock in the middle of the living room or dirty dishes on the kitchen counter makes the exhausted woman in your life crash out.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Her plan was to float around an underwater living room set up in her inner, surreal, suffocating fantasy world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The living room looked a little brighter than when he had left.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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