Couch

Quick meaning: Couch is a noun meaning (Canada, US, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

Meaning

(Canada, US, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

More Meanings

1. A bed, a resting-place.
2. The den of an otter.
3. (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
4. (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
5. (metonymic, usually as "the couch") Psychotherapy.
6. (figurative, politics, usually as "the couch") Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.
7. (intransitive) To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).

Example Sentences

[H]e and those / Shall bide eternal bedfellows / Where low upon the couch he lies / Whence he never shall arise.

[A]pproach thy grave / Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

[…] I want to try to describe my efforts to take psychoanalysis as a method off the couch and into the work of creating and using a political conference table.

O Sleepe, O gentle Sleepe, […] O thou dull God, why lyeſt thou with the vilde, / In loathſome Beds, and leau'st the Kingly Couch, / A Watch-caſe, or a common Larum-Bell?

Word Forms

• couches
• couching
• couched

Synonyms for couch

Depending on context, synonyms include davenport, divan, settee, sofa, lie down, recline.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sofa, cast, frame, put, redact, lounge.

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