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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A thin mattress of tufted cotton batting or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame.

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  • noun A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.
  • noun A round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

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  • noun mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Japanese, ultimately (although the first syllable is now written with the kanji for fu, cloth) from early Mandarin phu´ thɔn´, a kind of mat (Modern Mandarin pútuán, cushion made from rushes, hassock made from cattails) : phu´, rushes, reeds, aquatic grasses (such as those used for bedding, for example) (from Middle Chinese pɦuə̆) + thɔn´, round, to roll into a ball (from Middle Chinese tɦuan).]

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Japanese 布団 (ふとん, futon)

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Examples

  • Almost everyone has a horror story from a sleepless night on a paper thin mattress, and just hearing the word futon is enough to make...

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Stylelist Home 2012

  • If you need a couch, a futon is about all you can find.

    Furniture 2009

  • The new couch is also a sofa bed (very comfortable with innerspring mattress) so we got rid of the huge and ugly futon from the playroom.

    Living room makeover « Mad Dave and Lil 2010

  • The new couch is also a sofa bed (very comfortable with innerspring mattress) so we got rid of the huge and ugly futon from the playroom.

    2010 April « Mad Dave and Lil 2010

  • "One person's futon is another person's toilet brush."

    Archive 2009-03-01 Zenmomma 2009

  • Foonf (UID#) on November 22nd, 2009 at 11: 56 pm sex on a futon is uncomfortable

    Life Feet | My[confined]Space 2009

  • "One person's futon is another person's toilet brush."

    Tales from the Cafe Zenmomma 2009

  • A tightly-made bed or a flattened-out futon is about the best place to work on page proofs and CEMs, because it requires a good deal of spreading piles of paper out and making marks on them.

    where I work... runpunkrun 2008

  • Then she brought a comforter -- she called it a "futon" -- from the cupboard.

    The Japanese Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901

  • However I do want to know if the futon is a possibility before I go blow 50 bucks.

    Nanananananana WE'RE ALL GONNA GET IN A FIGHT! emu-head 2008

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Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. mattress

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. camelback
  2. comfy
  3. double-doored
  4. drop cloth
  5. horsehair
  6. king-size
  7. leatherette
  8. mc
  9. over-stuffed
  10. plastic-covered
  11. pull-out
  12. silk-covered
  13. straw-stuffed
  14. too-soft
  15. velvet-covered
  16. well-sprung

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