Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large sofa, often convertible into a bed.
- n. A small desk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of small writing-desk.
Wiktionary
- n. A large sofa, especially a formal one.
- n. A writing desk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small decorative writing desk
- n. a city in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River across from Moline and Rock Island
- n. a large sofa usually convertible into a bed
Etymologies
- From obsolete davenport, a small writing desk, probably from the name of the manufacturer.
Examples
“The only person in the world I've ever heard use the word davenport is my mother!”
“I have had dear René's harp removed to a lumber room, her portrait taken down from the library wall," she said, in her usual purring tones; "and her davenport is being wheeled into my own sitting-room.”
“Marjorie almost ran back to the davenport -- she was beginning to feel as if the davenport was the nearest she had to a mother -- and flung herself on it in a storm of angry tears.”
“My grandmother always called it a "davenport", which made even less sense to me.”
“As for "davenport," it's a regionalism, and a dying one at that.”
“They sat close to one another on a rose davenport.”
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“Short of blacking her face I think she has run out of threats and insults. dan davenport”
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“Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘davenport’.
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curmudgy's list
davenport, conquistador, moonblind, unfurl, tortilla, flotsam and jetsum, flash harry, coquet, endomorphism, effluvient, fivers, bawl and 5 more...
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Any port
support, deport, export, import, report, disport, rapport, teleport, transport, besport, watersport, spoilsport and 15 more...
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Words I like
wanderlust, macabre, schkeeva, davenport, regal, antidisestablishm..., gerund, scrutinize, xerxes, vignette
747captain When I hear Davenport, it reminds me of:
-A sofa in Grandma's living room
-The city in Iowa
-Dawn Davenport from John Waters 'Female Trouble' Sep 25, 2008
thinkcharlene As heard in . . .
The Big Store Dec 5, 2007
reesetee What a lovely memory. :-) Sep 17, 2007
npydyuan This reminds me of my grandpa, with his big beautiful hands that could drive a nail with one stroke of the hammer.
And the davenport always had an afghan draped over the back. Sep 17, 2007