英和和英

語源

Doublet of Lebensraum.

発音

• IPA: /ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːm/

名詞

living room (countable and uncountable, plural living rooms)

1. (countable) A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.

   Hypernyms: room < space, place, site, location

   Coordinate terms: bedsit, great room, salon, saloon; family room, den, rec room, dining room; kitchen, bathroom, bedroom

   Near-synonyms: lounge (esp. UK), loungeroom, lounge room (esp. Australia), sitting room, parlour, parlor, foreroom, front room, drawing room, zitkamer

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     We relax in the living room.

2. (uncommon, uncountable) Land intended for settlers.

   Synonyms: Lebensraum, living space

   • 2011, John Jackson, chapter 10, in Code Wars: How ‘Ultra’ and ‘Magic’ Led to Allied Victory‎, South Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Books Limited, →ISBN, page 58:

     But in the quest for ‘lebensraum’ — the Nazi quest for living room for the German people — he was to find to his ultimate cost the Russians were made of sterner stuff than he had envisaged.

派生語

• living-dining room
• living-roomful
• living room group
• living-roomy
• pope's living room

Further reading

• living room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia