chair

1. 1.

   act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university

   “She chaired the department for many years”

   Synonymschairman

   Broaderhead
2. 2.

   preside over

   “John moderated the discussion”

   Synonymsmoderatelead

   Broaderhash out

Other forms of chair

plural

chairs·

past tense

chaired·

present participle

chairing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chair

What does chair mean?

chair means "a seat for one person, with a support for the back". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chair?

chair has 1 syllable: chair. In IPA it is /ˈtʃɛɹ/.

What is another word for chair?

Close synonyms include professorship, president, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chair a common word?

chair is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with chair?

2 words rhyme with chair. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.