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Definition chair
Etymology
From Middle English chayer, chaire, chaiere, chaere, chayre, chayere, borrowed from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kathédra), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ???? (hédra, “seat”). Displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of chaise.
Noun
chair (plural chairs)
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
- Clipping of chairperson.
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
- (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- (slang, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair
- A distinguished professorship at a university.
- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
Verb
chair (third-person singular simple present chairs, present participle chairing, simple past and past participle chaired)
- (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- (transitive, Wales, Britain) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
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