"Winnipeg couch" meaning in All languages combined

See Winnipeg couch on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Winnipeg couches [plural]
Etymology: 1945, Winnipeg + couch. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Winnipeg couch (plural Winnipeg couches)
  1. (Canada) A simple couch, having no back or arms, that can be converted into a double bed. Tags: Canada Synonyms: bed chesterfield, davenport, daybed, sofa sleeper, sofa-sleeper, sofa bed, sofa-bed, sofabed, sofa-bedstead
    Sense id: en-Winnipeg_couch-en-noun-npdUFQ9B Categories (other): Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Winnipeg couch meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "1945, Winnipeg + couch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Winnipeg couches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Winnipeg couch (plural Winnipeg couches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, W.O. Mitchell, Who has seen the wind, Macmillan, page 261",
          "text": "He slept between sheets and on a flounced Winnipeg couch that stood in one corner of the twelve-foot square room that served as his cell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A simple couch, having no back or arms, that can be converted into a double bed."
      ],
      "id": "en-Winnipeg_couch-en-noun-npdUFQ9B",
      "links": [
        [
          "couch",
          "couch"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ],
        [
          "arms",
          "arms"
        ],
        [
          "double bed",
          "double bed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada) A simple couch, having no back or arms, that can be converted into a double bed."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bed chesterfield"
        },
        {
          "word": "davenport"
        },
        {
          "word": "daybed"
        },
        {
          "word": "sofa sleeper"
        },
        {
          "word": "sofa-sleeper"
        },
        {
          "word": "sofa bed"
        },
        {
          "word": "sofa-bed"
        },
        {
          "word": "sofabed"
        },
        {
          "word": "sofa-bedstead"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Winnipeg couch"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "1945, Winnipeg + couch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Winnipeg couches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Winnipeg couch (plural Winnipeg couches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Canadian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, W.O. Mitchell, Who has seen the wind, Macmillan, page 261",
          "text": "He slept between sheets and on a flounced Winnipeg couch that stood in one corner of the twelve-foot square room that served as his cell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A simple couch, having no back or arms, that can be converted into a double bed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "couch",
          "couch"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ],
        [
          "arms",
          "arms"
        ],
        [
          "double bed",
          "double bed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada) A simple couch, having no back or arms, that can be converted into a double bed."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bed chesterfield"
    },
    {
      "word": "davenport"
    },
    {
      "word": "daybed"
    },
    {
      "word": "sofa sleeper"
    },
    {
      "word": "sofa-sleeper"
    },
    {
      "word": "sofa bed"
    },
    {
      "word": "sofa-bed"
    },
    {
      "word": "sofabed"
    },
    {
      "word": "sofa-bedstead"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Winnipeg couch"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.