A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
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.
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.
Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained; a room in a private house where people can sit and talk and relax, not usually the same as the dining room.
A room in an inn or club where visitors can be received.
a sitting room reserved for special occasions
The formal or best room in a modest home. In a grander home, it seems to have been either a sitting room or a formal room for company, a little more impressive than a sitting room, perhaps not as grand as a drawing room.
Room in a home that is used for more formal purposes.
In nineteenth-century homes, parlors were formal rooms set aside for social ceremonies such as receiving guests or hosting tea parties. Many Americans believed that parlors enabled them to enjoy the refinement and comfort of respectable family living. Designed for display, the parlor was generally the "best room" in the house and usually contained furnishings and knick-knacks that cost more than the objects in the house that were intended for everyday use.
a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
A room in a private home set apart for the entertainment of visitors.
A formal room, mainly used for entertaining guests