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chair
[chair]
noun
a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair.
The two men clasped hands to make a chair for their injured companion.
a seat of office or authority.
a position of authority, as of a judge, professor, etc.
the person occupying a seat of office, especially the chairperson of a meeting.
The speaker addressed the chair.
(in an orchestra) the position of a player, assigned by rank; desk.
first clarinet chair.
Informal. the chair, electric chair.
(in reinforced-concrete construction) a device for maintaining the position of reinforcing rods or strands during the pouring operation.
a glassmaker's bench having extended arms on which a blowpipe is rolled in shaping glass.
British Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like.
verb (used with object)
to place or seat in a chair.
to install in office.
to preside over; act as chairperson of.
to chair a committee.
British. to carry (a hero or victor) aloft in triumph.
verb (used without object)
to preside over a meeting, committee, etc.
chair
/ tʃɛə /
noun
a seat with a back on which one person sits, typically having four legs and often having arms
an official position of authority
a chair on the board of directors
the person chairing a debate or meeting
the speaker addressed the chair
a professorship
the chair of German
railways an iron or steel cradle bolted to a sleeper in which the rail sits and is locked in position
short for sedan chair
chairing a debate or meeting
to preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
an informal name for electric chair
verb
to preside over (a meeting)
to carry aloft in a sitting position after a triumph or great achievement
to provide with a chair of office
to install in a chair
Gender Note
Other Word Forms
- chairless adjective
- unchair verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of chair1
Idioms and Phrases
take the chair,
to begin or open a meeting.
to preside at a meeting; act as chairperson.
get the chair, to be sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Example Sentences
Its chair, Conservative councillor Tim Oliver, also expressed concern about the changes for funding linked to council tax, adding it could "mean hundreds of millions of pounds of additional funding being redistributed from county areas".
Hahn, who also serves as the Metro board chair, asked Metro staff on Wednesday to report back to the board about the agency’s protocols if immigration agents board a bus or a train.
Craig Murray, chair of BIOS, says it is a hard condition for parents to spot early, and that it is a "postcode lottery" for families on whether they are offered screening or not.
Justin Cummings, the chair of the Coastal Commission during the May meeting, said that drone shows’ emergence indicate they are a feasible alternative to fireworks.
“This is a success story in process,” said Ted Russell, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and chair of the Owens Lake Scientific Advisory Panel.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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