Definitions for chairs

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chairs chair

Spelling: [chair]

IPA: /tʃɛər/

Chairs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in chairs (achirs).

Definitions for chairs

noun

1. a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
2. something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair:
3. a seat of office or authority.
4. a position of authority, as of a judge, professor, etc.
5. the person occupying a seat of office, especially the chairperson of a meeting:
6. (in an orchestra) the position of a player, assigned by rank; desk:
7. the chair, Informal. electric chair.
8. chairlift.
9. sedan chair.
10. (in reinforced-concrete construction) a device for maintaining the position of reinforcing rods or strands during the pouring operation.
11. a glassmaker's bench having extended arms on which a blowpipe is rolled in shaping glass.
12. British Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like.

Idioms

1. get the chair, to be sentenced to die in the electric chair.
2. take the chair, to begin or open a meeting. to preside at a meeting; act as chairperson.

verb (used with object)

1. to place or seat in a chair.
2. to install in office.
3. to preside over; act as chairperson of:
4. British. to carry (a hero or victor) aloft in triumph.

verb (used without object)

1. to preside over a meeting, committee, etc.

Origin of chairs

1250-1300; Middle English chaiere Old French Latin cathedra; see cathedra

Examples for chairs

Slouching in her chair she is in defensive mode when describing the age of her latest lover.

Grace sprang from her chair and began slipping into her wraps.

While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.

At that first meeting, activists elected Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov to be the chair for their society.

Still fearful and smarting from the pain, I arrived on time and was led to chair in his office.

Opposite him sat a tall fellow very erect and stiff in his chair.

I started to squirm in my chair and Jimbo put his hand back on my shoulder to settle me down.

Percval quickly helped him into a chair, where he became limp.

He sat down in a chair, and stretched out his legs, with an air of being at home.

"I knew he'd plunge," he said, taking the chair proffered him, near Shepler's desk.