chairs
plural of “chair” — a seat for one person, with a support for the back
An inflected form of chair · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,625 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,379 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
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
- the position of professor also: professorship he was awarded an endowed chair in economics
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization also: president, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson address your remarks to the chairperson
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person also: electric chair, death chair, hot seat the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair
- a particular seat in an orchestra he is second chair violin
chairs in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She covered her chairs with Turkey-red cotton, frilling them round the seats.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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A figure rose from one of the basket chairs, and came a few steps to meet us.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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The velvet on the chairs was darned at the angles as with the needle of a fairy.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Kat dusted the chairs, and Kit carried the big brass jugs outside the kitchen door to be polished.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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Down the side wall facing the window stood a row of kitchen chairs from which the older women had just risen.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1