chair
chair definition
chair (c̸her)
noun
- a piece of furniture for one person to sit on, having a back and, usually, four legs
- a seat of authority or dignity
- the position of a player in an instrumental section of a symphony orchestra
- an important or official position, as a professorship or chairmanship
- a person who presides over a meeting; chairman address your remarks to the chair
- sedan chair
- ☆ electric chair
Etymology: ME & OFr chaire < L cathedra: see cathedra
transitive verb
- to place in a chair; seat
- to place in authority
- to preside over as chairman
- Brit. to carry (a person) aloft in public triumph on, or as though on, a chair
chair Idioms
take the chair
to preside as chairman
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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