reclining chair

1. 1.

   an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it

   Synonymsreclinerlounger

   Broaderarmchair

Questions about reclining chair

What does reclining chair mean?

reclining chair means "an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it".

What is another word for reclining chair?

Close synonyms include recliner, lounger. 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 reclining chair a common word?

reclining chair 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.