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chaired

chaired is the simple past and past participle of chair.

Meaning of chair

Verb

chair (third-person singular simple present chairs, present participle chairing, simple past and past participle chaired)

  1. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
    • Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
  2. (transitive) 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
  3. (UK, Wales, transitive) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
    • The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.

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Phrases with chaired

Questions about chaired

What is chaired the simple past and past participle of?
Chaired is the simple past and past participle of chair.

Words near chaired in the dictionary

  1. chaircover
  2. chaircovers
  3. chairdrobe
  4. chairdrobes
  5. chaire
  6. chaired
  7. chaired up
  8. chaires
  9. Chairez
  10. Chairezes
  11. chairfast

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chaired (page history and authors); chair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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