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      chair
      noun
      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.
      (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
      The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
      (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
      (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
      A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
      (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
      (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
      An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
      (often with definite article) Chairperson.
      (fandom slang) The ship of characters Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf of the Gossip Girl series.
      (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson. [A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.]
      (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”). [A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.]
      verb
      (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
      (glassblowing) (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
      (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
      Roots
      kathedrachair- · Greek · seat, chair
      Synonyms for chair
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      Words related to chair
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