Definition of couch Couch
/kawˈʧ/ - [kawch] - cou•ch•
We found 32 definitions of couch from 7 different sources.
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What does couch mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: couches |
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| couch - a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment | ||
| couch - a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer | ||
| couch - an upholstered seat for more than one person | ||
| sofa, lounge | ||
| seat any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down" | ||
| sofa bed, convertible a car that has top that can be folded or removed | ||
| divan bed, daybed an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night | ||
| divan a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | ||
| love seat, loveseat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis small sofa that seats two people | ||
| settee a small sofa | ||
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Wiktionary 
- couch (Noun)
An item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. - couch (Noun)
Bed, resting-place. - couch (Noun)
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley. - couch (Noun)
A preliminary layer, as of colour or size. - couch (Noun)
couch grass , a species of persistent grass, , usually considered a weed. - couch (Verb)
To lie down ; to recline upon a couch. - couch (Verb)
To phrase in a particular style, to use specific wording. - couch (Verb)
To conceal; to hide.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- couch (v. t.)
To lay upon a bed or other resting place. - couch (v. t.)
To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. - couch (v. t.)
To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. - couch (v. t.)
To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying. - couch (v. t.)
To conceal; to include or involve darkly. - couch (v. t.)
To arrange; to place; to inlay. - couch (v. t.)
To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under. - couch (v. t.)
To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract. - couch (v. i.)
To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie. - couch (v. i.)
To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly. - couch (v. i.)
To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch. - couch (v. t.)
A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge. - couch (v. t.)
Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc. - couch (v. t.)
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt. - couch (v. t.)
A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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couch
A piece of furniture on which more than one person can sit, with cushions, a back, and arm rests. -
couch
Phrase in a style or language that softens or hides the intended meaning
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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couch
kowch, v.t. to lay down on a bed, &c.: to lower: to level: to arrange in language, to express: to depress or remove a cataract in the eye.—v.i. to lie down for the purpose of sleep, concealment, &c.: to bend or stoop in reverence.—n. any place for rest or sleep: a bed: the lair of a wild beast.—adj. Couch′ant, couching or lying down: (her.) of a beast lying down with his head up.—ns. Couch′-fell′ow, Couch′-mate, a bed-fellow; Couching.—Couch a spear, to fix it in its rest at the side of the armour. [Fr. coucher, to lie down—L. collocāre, to place—com, together, locus, a place.] -
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kowch, Couch-grass, kowch′-gras, n. a grass of the same genus with wheat, but a widespread and troublesome weed. [A variant of Quitch.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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couch
A sort of chamber or apartment in a large ship of war, just before the great cabin. The floor of it is formed by the aftmost part of the quarter-deck, and the roof of it by the poop: it is generally the habitation of the flag-captain.
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