Chair

Etymology
From chaire: <  cathedra: <  καθέδρα:, from κατά: + ἕδρα:.

Noun

 * 1) An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
 * All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.
 * 1) Chairperson.
 * Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.
 * 1)  The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
 * My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
 * 1)  Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.
 * 2)  One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
 * 3)  The electric chair.
 * He killed a cop: he's going to get the chair.
 * The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.
 * He killed a cop: he's going to get the chair.
 * The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.

Derived terms

 * birthing chair
 * chairman
 * chairperson
 * armchair
 * deck chair


 * easy chair
 * first chair
 * give someone the chair
 * high chair
 * musical chairs


 * rocking chair
 * tub chair
 * wheelchair
 * wing chair

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:, aulki
 * Bengali: চেয়ার, আসন, কেদারা, কেদারা
 * Breton: kador
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cadira
 * Cebuano:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Min Nan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: cadeira
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: (karékla)
 * Hebrew: כיסא
 * Hiligaynon: siya
 * Hindi: (kursī)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ソファ (as part of a sofa set)


 * Kamba:
 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian: krēsls
 * Luhya:
 * Luxembourgish: Stull
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay: kerusi
 * Nahuatl: ikpali
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: cadièra
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, assento
 * Romani:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: sutga
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: setulo
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: கதிரை
 * Telugu: కుర్చీ (kurchee)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, iskemle,
 * Urdu: (kursī)
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:, ystôl
 * Yiddish: שטול


 * Afrikaans: voorsitter
 * Bengali: সভাপতি, সভানেত্রী
 * Bulgarian: председател
 * Chinese: 主席 (zhǔxí)
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: יושב ראש
 * Latvian: priekšsēdētājs
 * Macedonian: претседател, претседавач
 * Norwegian:, formann
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:


 * : stoel
 * : Stui, Sässl
 * : cadira, seient
 * : seĝo (1), prezidanto (2)
 * : ΚΑΘΕΔΡΑ
 * : כיסא (kise')
 * : stulo
 * : kursi, tempat duduk


 * : sede, cathedra
 * : 의자
 * : cathedra
 * : kerusi, tempat duduk
 * : (kasera)
 * : scaun
 * : asiento, silla
 * : kiti

Verb

 * 1) To act as chairperson.
 * Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
 * 1) To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory
 * 2) * 1896, A. E. Houseman, "To An Athlete Dying Young," in A Shropshire Lad,
 * The time you won your town the race
 * We chaired you through the marketplace.

Translations

 * Bengali: চেয়ারপারসন
 * Bulgarian: председателствувам
 * Finnish: johtaa puhetta


 * German:
 * Macedonian: претседава,
 * Portuguese: comandar, dirigir

Anagrams

 * Archi

Etymology
caro:.

Noun

 * 1) flesh

Etymology
cadere:, present active infinitive of cado:

Verb

 * 1) to fall

Descendants

 * French:

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