chair
What is the Definition of chair?
Noun:
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- the position of professor
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
- a particular seat in an orchestra
Verb:
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
- preside over
How can I use chair in a sentence?
The pile of tried wands was mounting higher and higher on the spindly chair, but the more wands Mr. Ollivander pulled from the shelves, the happier he seemed to become.
Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work, and Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley into his high chair.
Everyone stared as he reached Professor Dumbledore's chair, slumped against the table, and gasped, Troll — in the dungeons — thought you ought to know.
He managed to say, Go — cupboard — stay — no meals, before he collapsed into a chair, and Aunt Petunia had to run and get him a large brandy.
They had almost reached the portrait hole when a voice spoke from the chair nearest them, I can not believe you are going to do this, Harry.
Other meanings of chair (synonyms, cognates).
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