Parlor

a word in English usage meaning the common room of the family, and hence probably in Authorized Version denoting the king’s audience-chamber, so used in reference to Eglon. (Judges 3:20-25)

PAR'LOR. See Dwellings.

PAR'LOR. See Dwellings.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. Specifically:

2. The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. Piers Plowman.

3. In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing- room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.

4. Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.