sofa
Syllables: so·faUK/ˈsəʊ̯fə//ˈsoʊ̯fə/
sofa noun: a raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
Noun (1)
sofa (plural sofas)
- A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
- An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
- He bought a big sofa two days before his relatives arrived.
- His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 228
Verb
sofa (third-person singular simple present sofas, present participle sofaing, simple past and past participle sofaed)
- To furnish with one or more sofas.
- The appearance of a student's apartment, though by no means splendid, is decidedly comfortable ; it is well cushioned and sofaed, with a proper proportion of arm chairs, and a general air of respectability — much better on the whole than our student's rooms ever are.1852, Charles Astor Bristed, Five years in an English university, page 14
- First, it will surprize you to learn that instead of the venerable simplicity which reigns in St. Stephen's chapel, the H. of Representatives, besides being stoved, carpeted, desked, and sofaed in the most luxurious style, rivals and indeed surpasses the Legislature of Paris in decoration and...1890, Stanley Lane-Poole, The Life of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe - Volume 1, page 100
- To seat or lay down on a sofa.
- Cliques of three or more are formed, each member of which goes in search of victims, and the first female found complaining of pain in the lower part of her back, is immediately run down, corralled, cornered, so to speak, and sans ceremonie she is at once tabled, sofaed or beded, or in the absence...1895, Denver Medical Times - Volume 5, page 191
- A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more.1880 October 22, Benjamin Disraeli, chapter XVI, in George Earle Buckle, editor, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, volume VI: 1876–1881, published 1929, Hughenden Manor; To Lady...
Noun (2)
sofa (plural sofas)
- A slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.
- 1884 Sofas conquer northern Sierra Leone. The sofas were soldiers of Mandinka empire builder, Samori Turay. Falaba, capital of Solima Yalunka kingdom, destroyed in the process.2006, Magbaily C. Fyle, Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone, page xx
Proper noun capitalized: SOFA
SOFA
- Acronym of Standards of Fundamental Astronomy.
- Acronym of Simulation Open Framework Architecture.
Noun (3) capitalized: SOFA
SOFA (plural SOFAs)
sofa meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sofa in Hindi
- upholstered seat
- सोफ़ा sofā, सोफा sophā, तख़्त taxt
sofa in Tamil
- சோஃபா, சோபா
sofa in Marathi
- upholstered seat
- सोफा sophā
sofa in Urdu
- upholstered seat
- صوفَہ sofa, تَخْت taxt
More languagesFewer languages
- sofa in Bengali
- সোফা śōpha
- sofa in Telugu
- సోఫా
- sofa in Malayalam
- സോഫ sōpha
- sofa in Kannada
- ಸೋಫಾ
- sofa in Punjabi
- ਸੋਫੇ, ਸੋਫਾ, ਸੌਫੇ
- sofa in Gujarati
- સોફા
- sofa in Odia
- ସୋଫା
- sofa in Sanskrit
- तल्प talpa
- sofa in Sinhala
- සෝෆා sōfā
- sofa in Assamese
- চোফা süpha
- sofa in Nepali
- सोफे, सोफा, सोफामा
- sofa in Pashto
- کوچ kauč, تخت taxt
- sofa in Tagalog
- sopa
- sofa in Arabic
- أَرِيكَة ʔarīka, كَنَبَة kanaba, تَخْت taḵt, دِيوَان dīwān
- sofa in Malay
- sofa
- sofa in Indonesian
- sofa, dipan
- sofa in Thai
- โซฟา soo-faa
- sofa in Vietnamese
- xô-pha, ghế xô-pha, đi văng, đi-văng
- sofa in Myanmar
- ဆိုဖာ hcuihpa
Examples of sofa in a sentence
- I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur2024, “Hot One”, in King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2, performed by Denzel Curry:
- I and another therefore entirely occupied our stateroom, which was sofaed round, being just large enough for two to lie down and a third to sit with his feet up and his head on his knees.1893, Henry Swinglehurst, Silver Mines and Incidents of Travel, page 97:
- It was a lavish, fully draped, fully sofaed, fully radiator-covered nineteenth-century deluxe German hotel suite.1981, David A. Kaufelt, The Wine and the Music, page 331:
- Many a time back in my boozing days when I was sofaed too.2006, Kim Akass, Janet McCabe, Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence:
Synonyms of sofa
Forms of sofa
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sofas |
| plural | SOFAs |
| alternative form (obsolete) | sopha |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sofas |
| present participle | sofaing |
| past participle | sofaed |
| past | sofaed |
Origin of sofa
Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”). Cognate with Aramaic צפא/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.
Words formed from sofa
Phrases with sofa
Words that rhyme with sofa
Questions about sofa
- What does sofa mean?
- Sofa means a raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
- What is sofa in Hindi?
- Sofa in Hindi is सोफ़ा (sofā), सोफा (sophā), तख़्त (taxt). See Sofa meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use sofa in a sentence?
- I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur
- What part of speech is sofa?
- Sofa can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sofa?
- Sofa is pronounced /ˈsəʊ̯fə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sofa?
- The plural of sofa is sofas.
Words near sofa in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sofa (page history and authors); SOFA (page history and authors); sofa (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sofa (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sofa (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sofa (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sofa (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sofa (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sofa (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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