couch

piece of furniture for seating two or more persons in the form of a bench with armrests
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couch

Summary

couch ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,202 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • couch is a type of seating furniture[2].
  • couch is a type of furniture[3].
  • couch's Commons category is recorded as Couches[4].
  • couch's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Couches[5].
  • couch's Commons gallery is recorded as Sofa[6].
  • couch's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[7].
  • couch's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8].
  • couch's different from is recorded as divan[9].
  • couch's different from is recorded as couch[10].
  • couch's different from is recorded as Couches[11].
  • couch's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000588[12].
  • couch's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include seating furniture[2] and furniture[3].

Influence

Things named for couch include casting couch[14], a prostitution[15] and moving sofa problem[16], a mathematical problem[17].

Why It Matters

couch ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,202 views/month).[1] couch has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] couch is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Entities named for couch include casting couch[14], a prostitution[15] and moving sofa problem[16], a mathematical problem[17].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [14] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25d ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of seating furniture, furniture
    Described by source Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    Jewish encyclopedia id 4703
    Different from divan, couch, Couches
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14470]]: Objects/Couch, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
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