Meaning of cocktail lounge in English

cocktail lounge

noun [ C ]

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/ˈkɑːk.teɪl ˌlaʊndʒ/ uk

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/ˈkɒk.teɪl ˌlaʊndʒ/

a large, comfortable room in a hotel where you can meet people and be served alcoholic drinks

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Selling & serving alcoholic drinks

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(Definition of cocktail lounge from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of cocktail lounge

cocktail lounge

Several people who had graduated with my husband met in the cocktail lounge of the hotel where the reunion was being held.

From Huffington Post

He wants to foster a cocktail lounge, clubby feel in the old sense of the word, with patrons spanning all demographics.

From San Francisco Chronicle

The train included sleeper accommodations, glass dome-topped observatory cars and a cocktail lounge featuring live music and a fully stocked bar that served until 3 in the morning.

From Washington Post

Laundromats, bodegas, and dive bars gave way to fancy bistros and upscale cocktail lounges.

From The Atlantic

In a neighborhood increasingly populated with cocktail lounges and craft breweries, that was becoming quite an anomaly.

From Chicago Tribune

Over the years, though, where she worked hardly mattered -- insurance offices, law firms, cocktail lounges.

From Chicago Tribune

They trooped laughingly into the hotel cocktail lounge.

From Project Gutenberg

We were sitting on the bandstand of the candle-lit cocktail lounge.

From Project Gutenberg

Across the lobby, a glowing sign said cocktail lounge in lower-case script.

From Project Gutenberg

This time there was no question about my age, nor was there later on that evening, in the cocktail lounge or anywhere else.

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This cocktail lounge was a very curious place.

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Across the highway are a cocktail lounge, several small motels and two service-station markets.

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Cars were thick in front of the cocktail lounge across the street.

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Yes; but do you know whether he was at his house or in an office or in a hotel or in a cocktail lounge or where he might have been?

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