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wheel-chair

wheel-chair is the uncommon form of wheelchair.

Meaning of wheelchair

Noun

wheelchair (plural wheelchairs)

  1. A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
    • "And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train."2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 9
  2. (attributive) Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.
  3. (broadly) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a nonhuman animal with locomotion.
    • To build the wheelchair, Dale Ryder attached wheels from a toy plane to an axle that fits over Mrs. T’s shell.2020 March 1, Gabe Bergado, “Watch this tortoise zip around town in a giant wheelchair”, in The Daily Dot

See all 4 meanings of wheelchair

Forms of wheel-chair

pluralwheel-chairs

Questions about wheel-chair

What is wheel-chair the uncommon form of?
Wheel-chair is the uncommon form of wheelchair.

Words near wheel-chair in the dictionary

  1. wheel within a wheel
  2. wheel-barrow
  3. wheel-barrow man
  4. wheel-barrow men
  5. wheel-barrows
  6. wheel-chair
  7. wheel-chairs
  8. wheel-clamp
  9. wheel-clamped
  10. wheel-clamping
  11. wheel-clamps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheel-chair (page history and authors); wheelchair (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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