English

Noun

coucher ‎(plural couchers)

1. One who couches.
2. (papermaking) One who couches paper.
3. (Britain, law, obsolete) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.

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4. The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French coucher, from Old French couchier, inherited from Latin collocāre, present active infinitive of collocō ‎(“place, put, assemble”).

Pronunciation

Verb

coucher

1. (transitive) to lay, to lay down
2. (transitive) to put to bed, to put up (a lodger)
3. (reflexive) to go to bed
4. (transitive, agriculture) to lodge, to beat down (wheat)
5. (transitive) to layer (branches)
6. (transitive) to slant (writing)
7. (transitive, military) to aim at
8. (intransitive) to sleep
   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage

     Le soir, Michette est livrée en cul. Durcet prend la Martaine pour coucher dans sa chambre, à l'exemple du duc qui a Duclos et de Curval qui a Fanchon; cette fille prend sur lui le même empire lubrique que Duclos sur le duc.

9. (intransitive) to spend the night
10. (intransitive) to lodge
11. (intransitive) to pack off to bed

    coucher avec — to sleep with

Synonyms

• (to go to bed) aller au lit, se pieuter

Derived terms

• Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

Conjugation

Noun

coucher m ‎(plural couchers)

1. going to bed
2. bedding
3. room and board
4. setting (sun)

   coucher de soleil — sunset, sundown

Middle French

Alternative forms

• couchier

Etymology

From Old French couchier.

Verb

coucher

1. (transitive) to put to bed

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: coucher

Noun

coucher m (plural couchers)

1. setting (of the sun)