chair of state

1. 1.

   a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person

   Broaderchair

   Narrowerthrone

Questions about chair of state

What does chair of state mean?

chair of state means "a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person".

Is chair of state a common word?

chair of state is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.