Usually means: Furniture designed for sitting comfortably.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word chair:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. chair, the chair: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chair, the chair: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chair: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chair, the chair: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chair: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chair, chair: Wordnik
  7. chair, the chair: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chair: Wiktionary
  9. chair: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chair: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chair: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chair, chair, the chair: Dictionary.com
  13. chair: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chair: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chair (Polish academic department), Chair (academic), Chair (academic department), Chair (acrobatics), Chair (disambiguation), Chair (furniture), Chair (officer), Chair (official), Chair (railway), Chair (route), Chair (sculpture), Chair, The Chair (Aintree Racecourse), The Chair (film), The Chair (game show), The Chair (song), The Chair, The chair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chair: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chair: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chair: Rhymezone
  19. chair, chair (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chair: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CHAIR: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Chair, Chair: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. chair: Free Dictionary
  24. chair: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. chair: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. chair: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. chair: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Chair: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  6. Chair (MC), Chair (official), chair: Legal dictionary
  7. Chair (official): Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chair (academic), Chair (official), chair: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chair (academic), Chair (official), chair: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CHAIR: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. chair: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chair: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chair: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the chair: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. CHAIR (FLESH), CHAIR: French-English Wine Glossary
  3. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See chaired as well.)

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

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