sofa, couch, lounge
(noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sofa (plural sofas)
(Middle East architecture, archaic) A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
(furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
• (furniture): couch, lounge, divan, settee
sofa (third-person singular simple present sofas, present participle sofaing, simple past and past participle sofaed)
To furnish with one or more sofas.
To seat or lay down on a sofa.
• OFAs, as of, oafs
Source: Wiktionary
So"fa, n.; pl. Sofas. Etym: [Ar. soffah, from saffa to dispose in order: cf. F. sofa, It.sofà.]
Definition: A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; - - much used as a comfortable piece of furniture. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. Cowper. Sofa bed, a sofa so contrived that it may be extended to form a bed;
– called also sofa bedstead.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
