Yep, easy chair .
They’re all couches to me. Except one seaters. That’s a chair, obviously.
My grandparents used to have a 4-seater. Not one of those that turns a corner, it was just instead of 3 seats it had 4. Any special names for those? They always called it a “davenport” but that’s also what they called 3 seaters.
Tim.
I was under the impression that it’s an oversized chair for an oversized person, so it would seat one person comfortably.
“Easy chair.” “Recliner” if it has some mechanism to let the sitter lean back, with or without a rising footrest.
I had one of those; it was great. Deeper than normal too. Great for falling asleep in, and extra great for when the dog wants to sit with you.
I remember on one of the home improvement shows on HGTV, the designer used a chair-and-a-half that could be unfolded to make a single, twin-size bed. That seemed a good idea for a guest.
[koan]What is the sound of one cushion couching?[/koan]
An easy chair.
Armchair.
The only couch meant for one is a Fainting Couch.
Ha! A couch (or chesterfield) is meant for one person. Stretched out to read on or nap as required with or without cat asleep on your chest.
Is it just me or does anyone else have difficulty shaking the feeling they should be fed grapes by servants while reclining upon these?
They are all named Zem.
NM, that’s the mattresses.
The chairs are named Tim, as posted above.
I would call the kind of comfy armchair or easy chair that looks like a sofa-for-one a club chair
The Wikipedia article is interesting in that the original French name for this kind of chair translates to “comfy chair” (OK, fine “comfortable armchair”).
This is an area where the English language really falls short. In German, the word you are looking for is Sessel. I can’t believe that chair would be a word to describe this item, when a chair can already b everything from a desk chair with wheels to a dining chair.
Which makes you think, how amazing the learning capabilities of toddlers are, to put these very different looking items in the same category. I’ve sometimes thought about the sort of abstraction that goes into that. If you were to define an algorithm that describes “chair”, you would have to have some very precise wording in order for something like a computer to understand you, but kids learn it just like that.
The word is “armchair,” as has been mentioned about three times. “Sessel” translates as such.
I’d argue that the term “armchair” includes such non-sofa-like chairs-with-arms as Aeron chairs, Dante chairs and Adirondack chairs.