sofas

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of sofa.

   The furniture store displayed dozens of sofas in every color imaginable.

   Leather sofas tend to last longer than fabric ones under heavy use.

   Note

   A regular -s plural that serves more than one noun spelled sofa. Most often it means the upholstered seats of a living room. In older writing about the Middle East it can mean raised, carpeted platforms for sitting, and in histories of the Mali Empire it names slave soldiers. The acronym for status of forces agreements takes the same plural as SOFAs. The identical spelling is also the present-tense verb.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of sofa.

   Note

   Two verbs stand behind this form. One is about furnishing, and the other is about placing someone, or oneself, on a sofa. The object usually tells them apart: a room or building points to furnishing, and a person points to resting. The -s marks agreement with a singular subject (he, she, it, the landlord), just as it does for any regular verb.

   The hotel sofas every guest lounge in matching velvet.

   The nurse gently sofas the patient near the window.

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