lobby
/ˈlɑ.bi/ noun B2- An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor. · I had to wait in the lobby for hours before seeing the doctor.
- That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
- A class or group of interested people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists. · Near-synonym: special interest· The influence of the tobacco lobby has decreased considerably in the US.
- A virtual area where meeting attendees can await admittance from an authorized person.
- A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
- An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
- A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard. · Near-synonyms: cowyard, paddock
- A margin along either side of the playing field in the sport of kabaddi.
Plural lobbies
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On reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when last at Pemberley.
Now, for my part, I met them in the lobby after the conclusion of the piece; and hang me, if I can guess where you took your notions of the other world from.
We drive down Broadway to Wallack’s at a gallop, where her mother and a box party will be waiting for us in the lobby.
The curtain fell almost immediately after the entrance of Madame Danglars into her box, the band quitted the orchestra for the accustomed half-hour’s interval allowed between the acts, and the audience were left at liberty to promenade the salon or lobbies, or to pay and receive visits in their respective boxes.
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