couch
/ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.17 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; American usage
noun
A bed, a resting-place.
noun
A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
noun
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
noun
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."
- "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?"
- "[A]pproach thy grave / Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
- "[H]e and those / Shall bide eternal bedfellows / Where low upon the couch he lies / Whence he never shall arise."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/
- British English: /ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/