parlor

A business that offers a particular kind of product or service.

• We visited an ice cream parlor.
• She opened a tattoo parlor last year.
• Several pizza parlors deliver to our neighborhood.

Similar words: shop, salon

Common phrases: tattoo parlor, pizza parlor, ice cream parlor

A room in a house where people sit, talk, and welcome guests.

• They sat in the parlor.
• Her guests drank tea in the front parlor.
• The old house has two parlors.

Similar words: sitting room, drawing room, living room

Common phrases: front parlor, parlor furniture, sit in parlor

Made for or suitable for use in a room where people sit and receive guests.

• The children played parlor games.
• This small instrument was popular for parlor music.
• Parlor painting became a fashionable hobby.

Common phrases: parlor games, parlor music, parlor painting

Supporting an idea through comfortable discussion without taking part in practical action.

• He dismissed their views as parlor socialism.
• The parlor revolutionary never joined a protest.
• She accused him of being a parlor radical.

Similar words: armchair

Common phrases: parlor socialism, parlor radical, parlor revolutionary