Usually means: Room for entertaining or relaxing.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word parlor:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. parlor: Merriam-Webster
  2. parlor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parlor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parlor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parlor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Parlor, parlor: Wordnik
  7. parlor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. parlor: Wiktionary
  9. parlor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. parlor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. parlor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Parlor, parlor: Dictionary.com
  13. parlor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. parlor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Parlor (film), Parlor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Parlor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. parlor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. parlor: Rhymezone
  19. parlor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. parlor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. parlor: FreeDictionary.org
  22. parlor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. parlor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parlor: Legal dictionary

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  1. parlor: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parlor: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. parlor: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. parlor: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See parloring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (dated outside Mid-Atlantic US) The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
noun:  (archaic) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.
noun:  (archaic) A comfortable room in a public house.
noun:  (chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio.
noun:  A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.
noun:  A shed used for milking cattle.
noun:  (Philippines) Short for beauty parlor. [(US, Philippines) A salon where hairdressers, beauticians, and cosmeticians work.]

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