chair
/t͡ʃɛə/
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British/t͡ʃɛː/
chair noun: an item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Also the clipping of chairperson.
Noun
chair (plural chairs)
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.
- I sat on my chair to have dinner.
- The post or position of chairperson.
- The meeting began, with Mr Roberts in the chair.
- The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
- A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- The wooden or steel keys used to secure bull-head rails in their chairs are usually driven in the direction of the traffic, so that the effects of rail-creep may be made use of to wedge the keys more firmly, rather than to encourage them to drop out.1934 February, “The Why and The Wherefore: Chair-keys”, in Railway Magazine, page 139
- One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- A distinguished professorship at a university.
- In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg […]2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11
- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- Enter Mortimer, brought in a Chayre, and Iaylors.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- She always leaves her Chair at the milliner's in the next Street.1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- Melinda has the best chair in the salon.
Verb
chair (third-person singular simple present chairs, present participle chairing, simple past and past participle chaired)
- To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
- Dama ben Netina, the gentile "Mayor" of first-century Ashkelon, was once chairing a meeting of the City Council.2000, David Golinkin, “Institutionalizing Parents With Alzheimer's Disease”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 3, page 38
- To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the marketplace.1896, A. E. Houseman, “To An Athlete Dying Young,”, in A Shropshire Lad
- The time you won your town the race
- To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Chair
Chair
- Chairperson.
- Please address all questions through the Chair.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Chair
Chair
- The ship of characters Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf of the Gossip Girl series.
- His skill renders Becker's portrayal of Prince Grimaldi, a lover and future husband, futile in the wake of Chair (Chuck and Blair).2011, Brionna Jimerson, "'Gossip Girl' conceives unrealistic plotlines, child", The Tufts Daily (Tufts University), 6 October 2011, page 11
- We can already tell which idyllic couples obsessive fans will fantasize about like Chair (Chuck and Blaire of "Gossip Girl") and Jim and Pam of "The Office."2012 October 18, Haley Boston, “TV Review: 'Nashville'”, in The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University, page 4
Also used as
chair is also the clipping of chairperson.
chair is also the ellipsis of electric chair.
chair meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
chair in Hindi
- furniture
- आसंद āsand, कुरसी kursī
chair in Tamil
- furniture
- நாற்காலி nāṟkāli, கதிரை katirai
chair in Marathi
- furniture
- खुर्ची khurcī
chair in Urdu
- furniture
- آسَنْد āsand, کُرْسی kursī
More languagesFewer languages
- chair in Bengali
- চেয়ার ceẏar, আসন aśon, কেদারা kedara, কুরসি kurśi
- chair in Telugu
- కుర్చీ kurcī, చేరు cēru, ఆసనం āsanaṁ
- chair in Malayalam
- കസേര kasēra, അദ്ധ്യക്ഷസ്ഥാനം addhyakṣasthānaṁ
- chair in Kannada
- ಕುರ್ಚಿ kurci
- chair in Punjabi
- ਕੁਰਸੀ kursī
- chair in Gujarati
- ખુરસી khursī, આસંદી āsandī
- chair in Odia
- ଚୌକି cauki
- chair in Sanskrit
- आसन āsana
- chair in Sinhala
- පුටුව puṭuwa
- chair in Assamese
- চকী soki
- chair in Nepali
- कुर्सी kursī
- chair in Pashto
- کورسۍ kwǝrsǝ́y, څوکۍ cawkᶕy, چوکۍ čawkéy
- chair in Tagalog
- silya, upuan, luklukan
- chair in Arabic
- كُرْسِيّ kursiyy, مَقْعَد maqʕad, كرسي korsī, شلية šalya
- chair in Malay
- kerusi, kursi, mengerusi
- chair in Indonesian
- kursi
- chair in Persian
- چَوْکِی čawkī, کُرْسِی kursī, صَنْدَلِی sandalī, صَنْدَلی sandali
- chair in Thai
- เก้าอี้ gâo-îi, ตั่ง dtàng
- chair in Vietnamese
- ghế
- chair in Myanmar
- ထိုင်ခုံ htuinghkum, ကုလားထိုင် ku.la:htuing
- Dhivehi
- ގޮނޑި goⁿḍi
Examples of chair in a sentence
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
Forms of chair
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chairs |
| alternative form | chur |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chairs |
| present participle | chairing |
| past participle | chaired |
| past | chaired |
Origin of chair
From Middle English chayere, chayer, chayre, from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). Partially displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of cathedra and chaise.
Blend of Chuck + Blair.
Words formed from chair
- Adirondack chair
- air chair
- almost fall off one's chair
- arm-chair
- armchair
- banana chair
- barber-chair
- barber chair
- Barcelona chair
- bar chair
- basket chair
- bath chair
- beach chair
- beanbag chair
- beanless bag chair
- bedchair
- birth chair
- birthing chair
- boatswain's chair
- booster chair
- bosun's chair
- bowl chair
- butterfly chair
- camping chair
- cantilever chair
- Cape Cod chair
- chairback
- chair bed
- chairborne
- chairbound
- chair car
- chair conformation
- chaircover
- chair days
- chairdrobe
- chairfast
- chairfolk
- chair force
- chairful
- chairholder
- chairhood
- chairlady
- chairless
- chairlift
- chair lift
- chair-lift
- chairlike
- chairmaker
- chairmaking
- chairman
- chair mat
- chairness
- chairobics
- chair of state
- chairoplane
- chair organ
- chairperson
- chair plug
- chair rail
- chair seat
Phrases with chair
- chair up
- ear chair
- hot chair
- tub chair
- chair beds
- chair cars
- chair mats
- chair time
- club chair
- cuck chair
- deck chair
- desk chair
140 more phrasesFewer phrases
- easy chair
- game chair
- geri chair
- high chair
- lawn chair
- love chair
- monk chair
- pool chair
- rout chair
- side chair
- step chair
- vice chair
- wing chair
- chair lifts
- chair plugs
- chair rails
- chair seats
- chair times
- close chair
- Dante chair
- Eames chair
- elbow chair
- empty chair
- first chair
- guest chair
- Judas chair
- mercy chair
- night chair
- patio chair
- potty chair
- Roman chair
- Sacco chair
- sedan chair
- tiger chair
- tramp chair
- chair organs
- chair seater
- chair umpire
- dining chair
- Elijah chair
- French chair
- gaming chair
- lady's chair
- lounge chair
- Luther chair
- Merlin chair
- monk's chair
- Morris chair
- office chair
- shower chair
- sledge chair
- swivel chair
- take a chair
- took a chair
- chair seaters
- chair umpires
- cricket chair
- endowed chair
- feeding chair
- folding chair
- invalid chair
- massage chair
- Muskoka chair
- nursing chair
- papasan chair
- peacock chair
- rocking chair
- rolling chair
- roorkee chair
- slipper chair
- steamer chair
- taken a chair
- takes a chair
- walking chair
- Windsor chair
- bean-bag chair
- Dantesca chair
- electric chair
- fighting chair
- fountain chair
- kneeling chair
- princess chair
- rotating chair
- smoker's chair
- take the chair
- taking a chair
- took the chair
- wingback chair
- geriatric chair
- ice cream chair
- ice-cream chair
- planter's chair
- pull up a chair
- reception chair
- revolving chair
- semi-easy chair
- spectator chair
- taken the chair
- takes the chair
- Laurentian chair
- Mendlesham chair
- Savonarola chair
- taking the chair
- Cromwellian chair
- farthingale chair
- gestatorial chair
- Glastonbury chair
- grandfather chair
- Cassiopeia's Chair
- confessional chair
- Gainsborough chair
- chair conformations
- grandfather's chair
- rocking chair money
- soda fountain chair
- fall off one's chair
- fireman's chair knot
- fireman's chair knots
- fold like a lawn chair
- gave someone the chair
- give someone the chair
- socialism of the chair
- socialist of the chair
- folds like a lawn chair
- given someone the chair
- gives someone the chair
- Martha Washington chair
- socialists of the chair
- folded like a lawn chair
- giving someone the chair
- folding like a lawn chair
- almost fell off one's chair
- nearly fall off one's chair
- nearly fell off one's chair
- almost falls off one's chair
- nearly falls off one's chair
- almost fallen off one's chair
- nearly fallen off one's chair
- almost falling off one's chair
- nearly falling off one's chair
Questions about chair
- What does chair mean?
- Chair means an item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- What is chair in Hindi?
- Chair in Hindi is आसंद (āsand), कुरसी (kursī). See Chair meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use chair in a sentence?
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people.
- What part of speech is chair?
- Chair can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce chair?
- Chair is pronounced /t͡ʃɛə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chair?
- The plural of chair is chairs.
Words near chair in the dictionary
Source and license
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