chesterfield

Meanings

1. A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.
2. Any couch or sofa.

1. Any of a number of settlements:
2. A market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.
3. A hamlet in Wall parish, Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1005)
4. A rural municipality in west Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261.
5. A number of places in the United States:
6. A village in the town of Montville, New London County, Connecticut.
7. A ghost town and historic district in Caribou County, Idaho.
8. A village and township in Macoupin County, Illinois.
9. A town in Union Township, Madison County and Salem Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
10. A town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
11. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Macomb County, Michigan.
12. A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.

1. An extremely polite person.

Etymology

From Chesterfield. Named after Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), who commissioned the first such couch.