chairman
Syllables: chair·manUK/ˈtʃɛːmən//ˈtʃɛɹ.mən/
chairman noun: a person presiding over a meeting, sometimes especially a man. (Compare chairwoman, chairperson, chair.).
Noun
chairman (plural chairmen)
- A person presiding over a meeting, sometimes especially a man. (Compare chairwoman, chairperson, chair.)
- The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
- When I got ready to leave, why, Chairman Mao came down to the plane. Chairman Mao gave me some Chinese rugs and told me that I was the only prisoner of war that had ever come through there from North China.2003, William L. Taylor, Wake Island : the Alamo of the Pacific, History Channel, →OCLC
- Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman. Beeching accepted this latter position, and initially...2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43
- Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
- Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no hopes of having any future good customer in the squire […]1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 618
- Mr. Winkle, catching sight of a lady's face at the window of the sedan, turned hastily round, plied the knocker with all his might and main, and called frantically upon the chairman to take the chair away again.1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
Verb
chairman (third-person singular simple present chairmans, present participle chairmaning or chairmanning, simple past and past participle chairmaned or chairmanned)
- To serve as chairman.
chairman meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
chairman in Hindi
- person presiding over a meeting
- अध्यक्ष adhyakṣ, सभापति sabhāpti, सदर sadar
- head of a corporate or governmental board
- अध्यक्ष adhyakṣ
chairman in Tamil
- அவைத்தலைவர், தலைவர்
chairman in Urdu
- person presiding over a meeting
- صَدْر sadr, رَئِیس raīs
chairman in Malayalam
- chairman
- അധ്യക്ഷൻ adhyakṣaṉ
More languagesFewer languages
- chairman in Kannada
- ಮೇಲಾಳು, ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ, ಸಭಾಪತಿ, ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿ
- chairman in Nepali
- अध्यक्ष adhyakṣa
- chairman in Tagalog
- tagapangulo
- chairman in Arabic
- رَئِيس raʔīs
- chairman in Malay
- pengerusi, pengerusi lelaki
- chairman in Indonesian
- ketua
- chairman in Thai
- ประธาน bprà-taan
- chairman in Vietnamese
- chủ tịch
- chairman in Myanmar
- သဘာပတိ sa.bhapa.ti., ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ukkathta.
- Sindhi
- نِشِستمان niśistmā̃
Examples of chairman in a sentence
- I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
- The committee chairman made a few concluding remarks and then closed the session.
- The downfall of the chairman is an obsession that consumes Laura's time.
Forms of chairman
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chairmen |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chairmans |
| present participle | chairmaning |
| present participle | chairmanning |
| past participle | chairmaned |
| past | chairmaned |
| past participle | chairmanned |
| past | chairmanned |
Origin of chairman
From chair + -man.
Words formed from chairman
Questions about chairman
- What does chairman mean?
- Chairman means a person presiding over a meeting, sometimes especially a man. (Compare chairwoman, chairperson, chair.).
- What is chairman in Hindi?
- Chairman in Hindi is अध्यक्ष (adhyakṣ), सभापति (sabhāpti), सदर (sadar). See Chairman meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chairman?
- Chairman can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce chairman?
- Chairman is pronounced /ˈtʃɛːmən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chairman?
- The plural of chairman is chairmen.
Words near chairman in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chairman (page history and authors); chairman (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അധ്യക്ഷൻ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); chairman (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अध्यक्ष (Nepali) (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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