Meanings
plural chaise longues · plural chaises longues
- UKA reclining chair with a long seat, which can support the outstretched legs of a sitter normally with one armrest.
Hey, you, over there / On the chaise longue, in your underwear / What are you doing sitting down? / You should be horizontal now
2021, “Chaise Longue”, performed by Wet LegSynonyms: chaise lounge, lit de repos
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA reclining chair with a long seat, which can support the outstretched legs of a sitter normally with one armrest.
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Origin
- Frenchchaise longue
- Englishchaise longue
Borrowed from French chaise longue (literally “long chair”).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مَضْجَع
- مَضْجَع (maḍjaʕ)reclining chair with a long seat
Basque etzaulki
- etzaulkireclining chair with a long seat
Catalan chaise longue, chaise-longue
- chaise longuereclining chair with a long seat
- chaise-longuereclining chair with a long seat
Chinese Mandarin 躺椅, 睡椅
- 躺椅 (tǎngyǐ)reclining chair with a long seat
- 睡椅 (shuìyǐ)reclining chair with a long seat
Czech šezlong, dlouhé křeslo
- šezlongreclining chair with a long seat
- dlouhé křesloreclining chair with a long seat
Danish chaiselong
- chaiselongreclining chair with a long seat
Dutch ligstoel, chaise longue
- ligstoelreclining chair with a long seat
- chaise longuereclining chair with a long seat
Esperanto kuŝsofo
- kuŝsoforeclining chair with a long seat
Estonian chaise longue
- chaise longuereclining chair with a long seat
Finnish lepotuoli
- lepotuolireclining chair with a long seat
French chaise longue
- chaise longuereclining chair with a long seat
German Chaiselongue, Recamiere
- Chaiselonguereclining chair with a long seat
- Recamierereclining chair with a long seat
- Relaxliegereclining chair with a long seat
Greek ανάκλιντρο
- ανάκλιντρο (anáklintro)reclining chair with a long seat
Hungarian sezlon
- sezlonreclining chair with a long seat
Indonesian kursi santai, sofa malas
- kursi santaireclining chair with a long seat
- sofa malasreclining chair with a long seat
Italian chaise longue, agrippina
- chaise longuereclining chair with a long seat
- agrippinareclining chair with a long seat
- greppinareclining chair with a long seat
- cislongareclining chair with a long seat
- sislungareclining chair with a long seat
Japanese シェーズ・ロング
- シェーズ・ロング (shēzu-rongu)reclining chair with a long seat
Korean 긴 의자
- 긴 의자 (gin uija)reclining chair with a long seat
Lithuanian šezlòngas
- šezlòngasreclining chair with a long seat
Norwegian Bokmål sjeselong
- sjeselongreclining chair with a long seat
Polish szezlong
- szezlongreclining chair with a long seat
Portuguese chaise longue
- chaise longuereclining chair with a long seat
Romanian șezlong
- șezlongreclining chair with a long seat
Russian куше́тка, шезло́нг
- куше́тка (kušétka)reclining chair with a long seat
- шезло́нг (šezlóng)reclining chair with a long seat
Spanish tumbona, chaise longue
- tumbonareclining chair with a long seat
- chaise longuereclining chair with a long seat
- cheslónreclining chair with a long seat
Swedish schäslong
- schäslongreclining chair with a long seat
Turkish şezlong
- şezlongreclining chair with a long seat
Ukrainian куше́тка
- куше́тка (kušétka)reclining chair with a long seat
Yiddish שעזלאָנג
- שעזלאָנג (shezlong)reclining chair with a long seat
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with chaise longue
Cite this entry
chaise longue. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chaise%20longue
“chaise longue.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chaise%20longue. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chaise longue,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chaise%20longue.
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