couch

Definition

An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

Etymology

From Middle English couche, cowche, from Old French couche, from the verb (see below). Doublet of cwtch.

Example Sentences

• "At a casting workshop, an actor was performing a blank scene […] and he had not bothered to make any choices about why he was on stage, what his motivation was, what he was playing. He had decided who he was and where he was (on a couch with his girlfriend) but had not decided what he wanted. So the performance was flat and lifeless."
• "[…] 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."
• "It's not a particularly unique living room. It has a window that faces the street, two broken-in beige couches, a few end tables, a television (not the latest model), and a dark blue throw rug in the center of it all. Alice sat down on one end of one couch, and I sat down on the other end."