- Drawing room - Reception room - Sitting room - A room for business or social conversation, for the
reception of guests, etc. - The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates
are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors
and friends from without. - In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and
for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the
drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having
few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually
on the ground floor. - Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room
where visitors are received and entertained.
- Make known - To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to
introduce a person into a drawing-room. - To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to
introduce the finger, or a probe. - To lead to and make known by formal announcement or
recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce
strangers; to introduce one person to another. - To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use;
as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant. - To produce; to cause to exist; to induce. - To open to notice; to begin; to present; as, he
introduced the subject with a long preface.
- A room appropriated for the reception of company; a
room to which company withdraws from the dining room. - The company assembled in such a room; also, a
reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.