cushion
A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
Other meanings
A throw pillow.
A thin, flat pad used on hard chairs and sometimes toilet seats.
A kind of
- padding
Kinds of cushion
- air cushion
- pillow
- seat cushion
- throw pillow
Word history
From Latin "coxa" (hip, thigh).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cushion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.