Definitions for parlor

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parlor par·lor

Spelling: [pahr-ler]

IPA: /ˈpɑr lər/

Parlor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in parlor (aloprr).

Definitions for parlor

noun

1. Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
2. a room, apartment, or building serving as a place of business for certain businesses or professions:
3. a somewhat private room in a hotel, club, or the like for relaxation, conversation, etc.; lounge.
4. Also called locutorium. a room in a monastery or the like where the inhabitants may converse with visitors or with each other.

adjective

1. advocating something, as a political view or doctrine, at a safe remove from actual involvement in or commitment to action:

Origin of parlor

1175-1225; Middle English parlur Anglo-French; Old French parleor, equivalent to parl(er) to speak (see parle) + -eor

Examples for parlor

Among my other activities, I wired the parlor for electric light.

After the parlor was raided by police, the woman was jailed and then deported to Moldova by the British government.

It might have been the parlor of the White Springs Hotel in duplicate, plush self-rocker and all.

The first task that was set her was that of sweeping and dusting a parlor.

If they entered a house, he sat in the parlor; if they peeped into the kitchen, he was there.

But when they want to reverse nature, and rule white men, and marry white women, and sit in my parlor, then, by God!

Unwrapping her many layers has become the current parlor game of the media and blogosphere.

Today, savant-like information recall seems more like a parlor trick than a mark of real intelligence: cool, but not enviable.

He was shown into the parlor, and Will Paine came down to see him.

But blame-the-candidate is a Democratic parlor game played when they lose local seats they should have won by the numbers.