parlor
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parlor
- /ˈpɑːlə/ UK
- /ˈpɑɹlɚ/ US
- /ˈpaːlɔː/ Nigeria
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)lə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English parlour, from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from the verb parler (“to speak”); compare Medieval Latin parlātōrium. Doublet of parloir. Displaced native Old English sprǣchūs.
noun parlors · parlour
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The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing 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.
Similar: living room, sitting room, drawing room, lounge
- 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.
- A comfortable room in a public house. 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.
- A covered open-air patio.
- A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context. tattoo parlor pizza parlor ice cream parlor
- Ellipsis of beauty parlor
- A shed used for milking cattle; a milking parlor.
adjective parlour
- Used in or appropriate for a parlor. Parlor painting.
- Advocating something in a secluded place without actual involvement or action. Parlor socialism.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sitting room, living room, front room, livingroom, parlour, room, salon, foyer, showroom, shop, den, saloon, barbershop, restaurant, showcase, exhibition
Translations
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noun shop or other business selling goods specified by context.
| Français | salon |
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noun room for talking, room for entertaining guests, living room
| Español | sala, sala de estar |
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| 日本語 | 客室 kyakushitsu, 客間 kyakuma |
| Français | parloir, salon |
| Deutsch | Wohnzimmer, Salon |
| Русский | приёмная prijómnaja |
noun drawing room
| Français | salon |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Empfangszimmer, Salon, Sprechzimmer, Stube, Wohnzimmer |
noun comfortable room in a public house
| Français | salon |
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noun shed used for milking cattle
| Français | salle de traite |
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Talk about this word "parlor." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/parlor. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026. parlor. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/parlor "parlor." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 5, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/parlor.Cite this
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title = {parlor},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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