chair
chair is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A movable single seat with a back. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A movable single seat with a back.
- noun. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.
- noun. The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.
- noun. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.
- noun. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- transitive verb. To place in a chair.
- transitive verb. To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.
- noun. the position of professor
"he was awarded an endowed chair in economics"
- noun. a seat for one person, with a support for the back
"he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down"
- noun. a particular seat in an orchestra
"he is second chair violin"
- noun. an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
"the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"
- noun. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
"address your remarks to the chairperson"
- verb. preside over
"John moderated the discussion"
- verb. act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
"She chaired the department for many years"
Synonyms
professorship, chairman, chairperson, chairwoman, president, lead, moderate
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in chair:
Common word forms
chairs, chaired, chairer, chairing, chairless
Words from these letters
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