couch

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an upholstered seat for more than one person
noun a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer
noun a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment

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

COUCH, SIR ARTHUR T. QUILLER-. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
She was on the couch, sobbing. — Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
But that was the visitor's couch. — Shakespeare's family, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

sofa, lounge

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