cocktail lounge

noun

: a public room (as in a hotel, club, or restaurant) where cocktails and other drinks are served

Examples of cocktail lounge in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Off the lobby is Bastia, the hotel’s all-day restaurant which showcases the foods of Sardinia and Corsica, and the cocktail lounge Caletta. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026

For now, the cocktail lounge menu offers classic libations, like an Old Fashioned and Moscow Mule. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026

Restaurants, cocktail lounges and snack bars — none were yet in place. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Mendocino County’s Skunk Train has added The Noyo, an adults-only cocktail lounge on rails, offering a two-hour, 16-mile round trip from Willits through redwood country. — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above