Meaning of couch in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Definitions
  3. Noun
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Verb

    couch

    Definitions

    1. formulate in a particular style or language

    Examples

    • « I wouldn't put it that way »
    • « She cast her request in very polite language »

    Derived terms

  2. Noun

    couch

    Etymology

    Middle English (as a noun denoting something to sleep on; as a verb in the sense ‘lay something down’): from Old French couche (noun), coucher (verb), from Latin collocare‘place together’ (see collocate)

    Definitions

    1. an upholstered seat for more than one person

    Derived terms

  3. 2. a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer
  4. 3. a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment

Famous quotes

  • « I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee. »
    Tim Heidecker
  • « I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then. »
    Creed Bratton
  • « It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. »
    Epicurus
  • « I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God. »
    Tim Tebow
  • « We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. »
    John F. Kennedy

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