cocktail lounge
3
3.3
- noun
- /ˈkɒk.teɪl laʊndʒ/
- US
:
salón de cócteles
- The hotel's cocktail lounge offers a wide variety of drinks and a cozy atmosphere.
- restaurants and cocktail lounges
- bars and cocktail lounges
- cocktail lounges and nightclubs
Examples
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You can relax and enjoy a drink in the stylish cocktail lounge after a long day.
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Look for me downstairs in the cocktail lounge!
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You know, you can meet a lot of interesting people in a cocktail lounge.
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Well, I'll either be in the cocktail lounge...
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I was upset at having to leave the cocktail lounge before our friends had ordered their drinks.
Fiction book (1999) -
If there's a cocktail lounge, we ought to work that first.
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There were steps from the sidewalk leading into a cocktail lounge.
Fiction book (1996) -
That afternoon, while Jolene was at the hairdresser's, Harry went to a cocktail lounge.
Fiction book (1991) -
Also in the valley, Yosemite Lodge has a few gift shops, a cafeteria, a nicer restaurant, and a cocktail lounge.
Academic text (1994) -
We take a window table in the cocktail lounge with a view of white and beige buildings with red and orange roofs stretching all the way to the tree line north of Montana.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people buy and drink alcoholic drinks
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2.3
A room in a hotel or airport with comfortable seats to relax
111
3.5
A place where people drink alcoholic drinks and often eat, like a bar
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5.8
A place where people drink alcohol and talk
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3.4
A bar or pub where people meet to drink and talk
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4.0
A room where people drink alcohol at a counter
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3.9
A small bar or restaurant that serves drinks and simple food
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5.6
A room in a brewery or bar where people buy and drink beer at the counter
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6.2
A small restaurant or bar in Mediterranean countries that serves traditional food and drinks
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8.1
A pub or bar where people go to drink
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'cocktail' (an alcoholic mixed drink) with 'lounge' (a public room for relaxing/waiting): it denotes a lounge where cocktails are served. This noun–noun compound follows a common compositional pattern found cross‑linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The compound cocktail lounge comes from the words cocktail, meaning a mixed alcoholic 'drink', and lounge, meaning a 'room' to rest and relax. That image of a comfortable room where people sit and sip mixed drinks explains why it now means 'a bar in a hotel or restaurant where cocktails are served and people relax'.