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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sitting room
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Feeley paced, chain-smoked, made phone calls from the Lincoln sitting room.
▪ His parents were in the sitting room.
▪ I knew it was a mistake to help my silly wee sister paste pictures into her scrapbook in the sitting room.
▪ In the sitting room, Ted Johnson was trying to give the old man something squirreled away in his satchel.
▪ John caught Sarah's arm and hustled her into the sitting room while Emily hurried down the stairs to join them.
▪ No one in the hall except the grandfather clock I'd seen floating in my dream; no one came out of the sitting room.
▪ The door to the sitting room was ajar, and a wedge of light shone out across the stairs.
▪ There was nothing, not even that hotel sitting room, to compare.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sitting room

Sitting \Sit"ting\, n.

  1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

  2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

  3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.

  4. The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.

    The sitting closed in great agitation.
    --Macaulay.

  5. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.

    For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting.
    --Locke.

  6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

    The male bird . . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting.
    --Addison.

    Sitting room, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.

Wiktionary
sitting room

alt. A living-room; a room in a house where people pass the time in leisure. n. A living-room; a room in a house where people pass the time in leisure.

WordNet
sitting room

n. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax [syn: living room, living-room, front room, parlor, parlour]