Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. a room in some public place for people to wait
WordNet
n. a public room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait [syn: lounge, waiting area]
Wikipedia
A waiting room is a building, or more commonly a part of a building, where people sit or stand until the event which they are waiting for happens and begins.
There are generally two types of waiting room. One is where individuals leave one at a time, for instance at a doctor's office, hospital, or outside a school headmaster's office. The other is where people leave en masse such as those at railway stations, bus stations, and airports. These two examples also highlight the difference between waiting rooms where one is asked to wait (private waiting rooms) and waiting rooms one can just enter at will (public waiting rooms).
Most waiting rooms contain seats for people so they do not have to stand. Some have adjacent toilets. It is not uncommon to find vending machines in public waiting rooms or books and magazines in private waiting rooms. In some countries there are special waiting rooms especially for those who have paid for them, for example at airports and railway stations. These will generally be less crowded and will have superior seating and more facilities.
The films Brief Encounter and The Terminal use waiting rooms as sets for a large part of their duration. They are used elsewhere in the arts to symbolise waiting in the general sense, to symbolise transition in life and for scenes of a romantic or sad nature.
Waiting Room is an Australian band consisting of lead vocalist and actor Alan Fletcher, guitarist Chris Hawker, singer-songwriter Tommy Rando and drummer Jeff Consi. The band play at a public house called The Elephant and Wheelbarrow in Victoria, Australia. for Neighbours Night to meet fans. The band often tour the UK, where Fletcher is well-known because of his role in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
The band released their debut album In the Waiting Room in 2005.
With Fletcher's link to Neighbours, a couple of their songs have been about Neighbours characters including Sleeping Alongside Susan which was a remix of Smokie's Living Next Door to Alice. This was in reference to his characters relationship with Izzy Hoyland.
Fletcher toured the UK in September and October 2009 with band The X-Rays featuring Johnny Lucas, Chris Hanby and Martin Stewart.
A waiting room is a place where people sit or stand until the event they are waiting for occurs.
Waiting Room(s) or The Waiting Room(s) may also refer to:
- Waiting Room (band), an Australian rock band
- The Waiting Room, a 2002 album by Poor Old Lu
- The Waiting Room (Tindersticks album), an album by Tindersticks
- The Waiting Room (John Mann album), an album by John Mann
- Waiting Rooms (album), a 1997 album by Simon Warner
- The Waiting Room, a 2005 album by Emanon
- "The Waiting Room", a song from Genesis' 1974 album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- The Waiting Room (2007 film), a 2007 British film starring Anne-Marie Duff
- The Waiting Room (2010 film), a 2010 Hindi film directed by Maneej Premnath
- The Waiting Room (2012 film), a 2012 documentary film and social media project directed by Peter Nicks
- The Waiting Room (2015 film), a 2015 Canadian film
- The Waiting Room (TV series), a 2008 Australian observational documentary
- The Waiting Room, a 2000 play by Tanika Gupta
- "Waiting Room", a song from Fugazi's 1988 self-titled EP
- "Waiting Room", a song from No Doubt's 2001 album Rock Steady
- The Waiting Room (EP), a 1983 EP by Do-Ré-Mi
- Waiting Room (EP), an EP by Jamie Teachenor
Waiting Room — EP is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Jamie Teachenor. It was released on November 26, 2013, by Gasoline. The EP did well on several independent charts, debuting at number 45 on iTunes Top Rock Songs Chart and number 60 in the UK on Rockadia Magazine's Top 100 Rock New Releases Chart, quickly becoming an Amazon Best Selling Album. "Love Somebody" was chosen as the lead-off single from Waiting Room, " and was followed in early 2014 with the single, "I'm Not Over You," continuing to gain ground for Teachenor on Indie radio. The EP's cover art features an oil-based painting by Teachenor also titled, "Waiting Room."
Usage examples of "waiting room".
Corbett once had a waiting room just like this, and the magazines were just as out-of-date.
A few minutes later an usher led us up a curving staircase and along a corridor to a waiting room.
If something goes wrong with my station wagon, I can take a day off work, bring it here, and pay them to work on it while I sit in the waiting room for hours, listening to elevator music.
Almost at once he licked his lips, turned a sickly fishbelly-white, and looked away, studying the various low-rent furnishings of Feeble's miniscule waiting room -- the three folding chairs, the standing ashtray gray with recent ash, and the coffee table covered with issues of Personality Today.
And the allergy masks were left behind on a chair in her allergist's waiting room.
We find a dark corner in the waiting room, squat, order drinks for three, tell the madam not to bother our buddy because he’.
It looked less like the waiting room in a bordello, maybe because the inevitable lovely was absent.
One of her teenage patients just showed up without an appointment and is creating a scene out in the waiting room.
I asked her to go into the ladies' waiting room, but she informed me gravely that she preferred to stay outside.
My doctor says, 'Would you mind staying in the waiting room and just shout to me your symptoms?
Instead, a few discreet enquiries and some understanding cab drivers took him to an almost oppressively respectable suburb, where he presently found himself in a pleasant waiting room, by no means as exotic as might have been supposed.
The memory of sitting in a hospital waiting room, insisting with childish selfishness that she wouldn't leave Jefferson, when her father was desperately injured and would face a nightmare of rehabilitation alone, left her writhing inside, soul-sick and exhausted.
Will you allow me to show you and your companions to a waiting room where you can receive welcome while I send word to the First Counsel?