cocktail lounge

noun

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

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The charming dissonance between the cocktail lounge and dining areas. Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2025 The hotel offers plenty of options to eat and drink with four sit-down restaurants, a pool bar, and a cocktail lounge. Chris Schaklx, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2025 From a fine-dining fixture in Boulder to the bartenders at the helm of a rowdy cocktail lounge in Denver, this year's finalists capture the full flavor of the Front Range — and beyond. Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025 Masterminded by the Rockwell Group, that means a cocktail lounge draped in blue velvet with a marble bar under a massive lighted globe on the 48th floor. Laurie Werner, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cocktail lounge

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cocktail lounge was in 1934

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“Cocktail lounge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cocktail%20lounge. Accessed 17 May. 2025.

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