lounge
Lounge may refer to:
Architecture
* Lounge, the living room of a dwelling
* Lounge, a public waiting area in a hotel's lobby (room), lobby
* Lounge, a style of commercial alcohol-Bar (establishment), bar
* Airport lounge, or train lounge (e.g., ...
, most often found in halls of residence
A dormitory (originated from the Latin word ''dormitorium'', often abbreviated to dorm) is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university stud ...
or dormitories
A dormitory (originated from the Latin word ''dormitorium'', often abbreviated to dorm) is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university stud ...
, at (for example) universities
A university () is an of (or ) and which awards s in several . Universities typically offer both and programs in different schools or faculties of learning.
The word ''university'' is derived from the ''universitas magistrorum et scholari ...
, colleges
A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a University system, constituent part of one. A college may be a academic degree, degree-awarding Tertiary education, tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate un ...
, military bases
A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or for the military
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically officially au ...
, hospitals
A hospital is a health care
Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the preventive healthcare, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and othe ...
, rest homes, , and even minimum-security 
prisons
A prison (also known as a jail or gaol (dated, British English, British, Australian English, Australian, and to a lesser extent Huron Historic Gaol, Canadian English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (or centre if outside t ...
. They are generally connected to several private rooms, and may incorporate a bathroom
A typical bathroom in a restaurant.
A bathroom or washroom is a room
In a building, a room is any space
Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. Physical space is ...
. They may also be found in secondary schools
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both lower secondary education (age 12 to 15) and upper secondary educatio ...
and sixth form colleges
Image:ShrewsburySixthFormCollege.JPG, Shrewsbury Sixth Form College in Shropshire
A sixth form college is an educational institution, where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as GCE Advanced Level, ...
.
Regular features include couch
A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, futton, or chesterfield (see Etymology
Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English
''The'' () is a grammatical article
Article often refers to:
* Article (grammar)
An article is any memb ...
es, television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV or telly, is a telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire
A wire is a single usually cylindrical
A cylinder (from Gre ...
s, coffee table
A coffee table is a low table (furniture), table designed to be placed in a sitting area for convenient support of beverages, remote controls, magazines, books (especially large, illustrated coffee table books), decorative objects, and other small ...
s, and other generic lounge furniture
Furniture refers to movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., chairs, stools, and sofas), eating (table (furniture), tables), and sleeping (e.g., beds). Furniture is also used to hold objects at a con ...
for socializing. Depending on its location and purpose of use, a common room may be known by another name. For instance, in mental hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health units, are hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is ...
s, where access is usually restricted to the daytime hours, this type of room is often called a "day room".
In Singapore, the term usually refers to a bedroom
A bedroom is a room
In a building, a room is any space
Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, al ...
without attached bathroom in an HDB apartment unit.
Kesgrave Hall School
Kesgrave Hall School was a private boys' boarding school in Kesgrave, England, catering for pupils with high academic potential who were unable to flourish in mainstream schools.
Incidents
Alan Stancliffe was convicted, in 1982, in 1999, and agai ...
, United Kingdom
File:Dialynas Hall common room.jpg, alt=Room in Dialynas Hall with sofas, a coffee table, a refrigerator, and plants. There is light streaming through two open windows, a warm earth-toned color palette, and an exposed concrete column., Private common room in a residential suite at Pomona College
Pomona College ( ) is a private
Private or privates may refer to:
Music
* "In Private
"In Private" was the third single in a row to be a charting success for United Kingdom, British singer Dusty Springfield, after an absence of nearly tw ...
in CaliforniaSee also
* Common Room (university) * Student loungeReferences
External links
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