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Sitting room   /sˈɪtɪŋ rum/   Listen
Sitting room

noun
1.
A room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax.  Synonyms: front room, living-room, living room, parlor, parlour.






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"Sitting room" Quotes from Famous Books



... she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sonya was sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the first he had ever written. Boris and Natasha were at the other window and ceased talking when Vera ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... drive, Pattmore and Annie went to Mrs. Thayer's sitting room, and the Captain went down town. At four o'clock, Miss Seaton knocked at Mrs. Thayer's door; but, receiving no answer, she tried to enter quietly. She found that the door was locked on the inside, however, and she was, therefore, obliged to withdraw to her own room to watch. It was six o'clock ...
— The Somnambulist and the Detective - The Murderer and the Fortune Teller • Allan Pinkerton

... breakfasting in Robin's sitting room, Hobbs brought in the morning newspapers. He laid one of them before the Prince, and jabbed his forefinger upon ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... sat in easy chairs in the little dining room of the automobile. It was also the sitting room, when the table was not set. And it was the kitchen when the cooking was being done on the oil stove, so you see it ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm • Laura Lee Hope

... in this house that the little colony of friends gathered, everyone bringing to the dinner what he could. Colonel Leonidas Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St. Hilaire occupied the great sitting room on the ground floor, and here the dinner would be spread, as a part of the dining-room had been shot away and was still wet from snow ...
— The Star of Gettysburg - A Story of Southern High Tide • Joseph A. Altsheler


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