chair

Meaning

Noun

1. An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
2. Clipping of chairperson.
3. The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
4. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
5. One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
6. (informal) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
7. A distinguished professorship at a university.
8. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
9. The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
10. An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.

Verb

1. To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
2. To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
3. To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

Concepts

chair

seat

stool

bench

chairman

chairperson

preside

lead

president

professorship

chairwoman

armchair

moderate

couch

chairmanship

electric chair

head

sofa

death chair

hot seat

throne

mat

lectureship

headship

form

saddle

bed

pedestal

presidency

place

chairs

lift up

speaker

siege

constituency

course

small table

settle

platform

pulpit

see

lecture

hydra

abutment

base seat

case of fit

foundation

holder

pillow

socket

stand

tray

bearer

bracket

carriage

carrier

carrier frame

console

cradle

cross arm

gudgeon

lug support

cage kep

dog

folding board

keep

kep

bank

sit

call the shots

conduct

convey

derive

direct

elicit

eventuate

go

infer

manage

operate

result

rule

spearhead

transmit

bay

berth

filling

locale

location

locus

mend

niche

patch

point

position

site

slot

spot

venue

caller

forelady

foreman

foreperson

forewoman

moderator

woolsack

guide

leader

shelf

table

presider

chief

sedan-chair

recliner

highchair

chesterfield

davenport

divan

loungeroom

settee

footstool

Job Title

employment

job

professoriate

residence

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English chayer, chaire, chaiere, chaere, chayre, chayere, from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). Displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of cathedra and chaise.

Sentences

Kravchuk held a mathematics chair at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute .

Walter Fernandez , Junior leads the magazine's team , with publications committee chair Edgar Burcksen.