sitting room
 起居室


 Sit·ting, n.
 1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
 2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
 3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
 4. The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.
    The sitting closed in great agitation.   --Macaulay.
 5. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
    For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting.   --Locke.
 6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.
    The male bird . . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting.   --Addison.
 Sitting room, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.

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 sitting room
      n : a room in a private house or establishment where people can
          sit and talk and relax [syn: living room, living-room,
           front room, parlor, parlour]