chair
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chair/tʃeə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a separate seat for one person, typically with a back and four legs.
- 2 the person in charge of a meeting or an organization (used as a neutral alternative to chairman or chairwoman).
■ the role of a chairperson.
- 3 a professorship.
- 4 (the chair) US short for electric chair.
- 5 chiefly Brit. a metal socket holding a rail in place on a railway sleeper.
- 1 act as chairperson of.
- 2 Brit. carry (someone) aloft in a chair or in a sitting position to celebrate a victory.
– origin ME: from OFr. chaiere (mod. chaire ‘bishop's throne’, chaise ‘chair’), from L. cathedra ‘seat’, from Gk kathedra; cf. cathedral.
'chair' also found in these Oxford entries:
affricate
- antimacassar
- arm
- armchair
- armrest
- back
- BarcaLounger
- bath chair
- boatswain's chair
- button-back
- carver
- cathedral
- chaise
- chaise longue
- charcuterie
- cucking-stool
- curule
- deckchair
- ducking stool
- easy chair
- electric chair
- ex cathedra
- faldstool
- fiddle-back
- fighting chair
- headrest
- high chair
- hot seat
- ladder-back
- leg
- loose cover
- lounger
- mace
- Morris chair
- musical chairs
- name
- professor
- pushchair
- Regius professor
- rocker
- rocking chair
- rung
- seat
- sedan
- side chair
- sleeper
- slip cover
- soft furnishings
- spadefoot
