wheelchair
UK/ˈwiːlt͡ʃɛə(ɹ)//ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/
wheelchair noun: a chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
Noun
wheelchair (plural wheelchairs)
- 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
- Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.
- 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
Verb
wheelchair (third-person singular simple present wheelchairs, present participle wheelchairing, simple past and past participle wheelchaired)
- To move using a wheelchair.
- Almost all of them learned wheelchairing and all learned to manage to eat by themselves.1991, Gosta Blennow, Jaak Jaeken, Lars Martin Wiklund, “Neurological Findings in the Carbohydrate-deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome”, in Acta Paediatrica, volume 80, number s375, →DOI, →ISSN, pages...
- People who took part walked, jogged, ran, rollerbladed and wheelchaired the five kilometers1996 May 14, “'Human Race'raises fundsfor charit”, in BYU Daily Universe
wheelchair meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
wheelchair in Hindi
- chair
- व्हीलचेयर vhīlceyar
wheelchair in Tamil
- சக்கரநாற்காலி
wheelchair in Telugu
- chair
- చక్రాలకుర్చీ cakrālakurcī
wheelchair in Malayalam
- wheelchair
- വീൽചെയർ vīlceyaṟ
More languagesFewer languages
- wheelchair in Arabic
- كُرْسِيّ لِلْمُقْعَدِين kursiyy li-l-muqʕadīn, كُرْسِيّ مُتَحَرِّك kursiyy mutaḥarrik
- wheelchair in Indonesian
- kursi roda
- wheelchair in Persian
- ویلچر vilčer, چرخک čarxak
- wheelchair in Vietnamese
- xe lăn
- wheelchair in Myanmar
- ဘီးတပ်ကုလားထိုင် bhi:tapku.la:htuing
Examples of wheelchair in a sentence
- I might be in a wheelchair, but I still want to be treated as a lady.
- Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in.
- The bus was stuck at the stop as its wheelchair ramp wouldn’t retract after use.
Forms of wheelchair
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wheelchairs |
| alternative form | wheel-chair |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wheelchairs |
| present participle | wheelchairing |
| past participle | wheelchaired |
| past | wheelchaired |
Origin of wheelchair
From wheel + chair.
Words formed from wheelchair
Phrases with wheelchair
Questions about wheelchair
- What does wheelchair mean?
- Wheelchair means a chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
- What is wheelchair in Hindi?
- Wheelchair in Hindi is व्हीलचेयर (vhīlceyar). See Wheelchair meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wheelchair?
- Wheelchair can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wheelchair?
- Wheelchair is pronounced /ˈwiːlt͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wheelchair?
- The plural of wheelchair is wheelchairs.
Words near wheelchair in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wheelchair (page history and authors); wheelchair (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); വീൽചെയർ (Malayalam) (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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