love seat

noun

A small sofa for two people.

Meanings

nounlove seat (plural love seats)

plural love seats · alternative loveseat · alternative love-seat

  1. A small sofa for two people.

    “Sit over there,” she added, pointing to a sage loveseat, matching chair and two chocolate-hued, cube-shaped ottomans.

    2015, Bonita Thompson, The New Middle, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20
    1 more example

    A carafe of tea and a plate of oatmeal cookies were on a small mahogany table in front of a pink and lime green plaid loveseat.

    2007, Nora Charles, Death Rides the Surf, Penguin, →ISBN

    Synonyms: tête-à-tête, two-seater settee

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA small sofa for two people.

Similar
tête-à-têtetwo-seater settee

More synonyms by meaning

nounsmall sofa that seats two people

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Catalan sofà biplaça
  • sofà biplaçaA sofa for two people
Finnish kahdenistuttava sohva
  • kahdenistuttava sohvaA sofa for two people
German Zweiersofa
  • ZweiersofaA sofa for two people
Italian divano, sofà
  • divanoA sofa for two people
  • sofàA sofa for two people
  • divano a due postiA sofa for two people
Polish mała kanapa dwuosobowa
  • mała kanapa dwuosobowaA sofa for two people
Russian лавси́т
  • лавси́т (lavsít)A sofa for two people
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APA

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Chicago

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