In a manor house, or large public building (as a town hall, college, etc.): a smaller room separate from the main hall, reserved for private…

a sitting room on the ground floor fronting the street.

A room in a house or apartment used for sitting and relaxing in (as opposed to a bedroom, dining room, etc.); a living room.

The room usually occupied by a person or family as a sitting-room; a parlour.

Scottish, Irish English, English regional (northern), and Newfoundland. The main room of a house; the living room.

In a Cape Dutch house, an entrance hall, or a room into which the front door opens; a front room or sitting-room.

= voorhuis, n. Occasionally partially anglicized as fore-kamer.

The drawing-room of a private house; the public sitting-room in a hotel or institution. Also transferred.

A sitting room or living room in a private house. Also: a public lounge.

A sitting room.

Esp. in estate agents' jargon: a sitting room (sitting room, n. 1a) or other reception room.