COUCH
What does "COUCH" mean?
A long upholstered piece of furniture for seating several people.
Meanings
- A sofa; a long padded seat for two or more people. They spent the whole rainy Sunday on the couch watching old films.
- To express something in a particular, often careful or indirect, style of language. The rejection was couched in such polite terms that she almost missed it. formal
- To lower or hold a spear or lance level, ready for attack. The knight couched his lance as the trumpet sounded. archaic
Did you know?
- The furniture 'couch' and the phrase 'couched in diplomatic language' share one root: Latin 'collocare', to lay or place - both are about how something is set down.
Word origin
From Old French 'couche', from the verb 'coucher' (to lay down), from Latin 'collocare' (to place together), the same root that gives English 'collocate'.
Remember it
COUCH has a 'OUCH' in it - that sound you make flopping onto a hard one, or finding the lost remote.
A little poem
Cushions hold the shape
of everyone who sat here-
the day folds into night.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told my therapist I felt like a sofa. She said I should couch that more carefully.
What it teaches
How you lay a thing down is half of what it means; the same truth lands soft or hard by its phrasing.
Quick facts
What does COUCH mean?
A long upholstered piece of furniture for seating several people.
Is COUCH a valid word?
Yes — COUCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is COUCH?
COUCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does COUCH come from?
From Old French 'couche', from the verb 'coucher' (to lay down), from Latin 'collocare' (to place together), the same root that gives English 'collocate'.
What can COUCH teach us?
How you lay a thing down is half of what it means; the same truth lands soft or hard by its phrasing.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.