Definitions for Chesterfield

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Chesterfield ches·ter·field

Spelling: [ches-ter-feeld]

IPA: /ˈtʃɛs tərˌfild/

Chesterfield is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 1128 anagrams from letters in Chesterfield (cdeeefhilrst).

Definitions for Chesterfield

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a single- or double-breasted topcoat or overcoat with a fly front and a narrow velvet collar.
2. a large, overstuffed sofa or divan with a back and upholstered arms.
3. Chiefly Canadian. any large sofa or couch.
4. Philip Dormer Stanhope [dawr-mer stan-uh p] /ˈdɔr mər ˈstæn əp/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1694–1773, British statesman and author.

Origin of Chesterfield

First recorded in 1885-90; named after an Earl of Chesterfield in the 19th century

Examples for Chesterfield

In the fashion of the age of chesterfield they portray the perfect gentleman.

She dropped her arms and fell back upon the chesterfield, insensible.

Yvonne rose from the chesterfield and slowly walked back to the piano.

She moves to the chesterfield and leans against it, biting her nails.

With a strange gurgling in his throat, he collapsed on the chesterfield.

I turned about, and there stood my companion at chesterfield.

chesterfield pronounced it to be from the pen of Bolingbroke.

He never can have read, no, he never can have been in a room with a volume of the divine chesterfield.

I agree with chesterfield, who said that no gentleman should make that noise!

There was music in the magnificent parlor of a modern chesterfield.