Sofa

Quick meaning: Sofa is a noun meaning (Middle East architecture, archaic) A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.

Meaning

(Middle East architecture, archaic) A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.

More Meanings

1. (furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
2. To furnish with one or more sofas.
3. To seat or lay down on a sofa.
4. (historical) A slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.

Example Sentences

He bought a big sofa two days before his relatives arrived.

I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur

It was a lavish, fully draped, fully sofaed, fully radiator-covered nineteenth-century deluxe German hotel suite.

His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.

Word Forms

• sofas
• sofaing
• sofaed

Synonyms for sofa

Depending on context, synonyms include couch, lounge, divan, settee.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include couch, lounge, chesterfield, armchair, chair, furniture.

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