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The correct spelling is chair.
How to pronounce chair
/t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/
nounIPA: /t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/
Say it like: Cha-yr
The correct spelling is chair. 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. For example: "All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair."
Usage Examples
“All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.”
“My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.”
“Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.”
Meanings
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.
- 2.The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- 3.An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
- 4.One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- 5.A distinguished professorship at a university.
verb
- 1.To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- 2.To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- 3.To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
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