Word Meanings - ARMCHAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to ARMCHAIR)
- SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - SUPPORTLESS
Having no support. Milton. - CHAIRMAN
1. The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body. 2. One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior. - CHAIRMANSHIP
The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body. - SUPPORT
convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an - SUPPORTER
A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South. - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - SUPPORTMENT
Support. Sir H. Wotton. - SUPPORTRESS
A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger. - CHAIR
pulpit, fr. L. cathedra chair, armchair, a teacher's or professor's 1. A movable single seat with a back. 2. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical - SUPPORTANCE
Support. Shak. - INSUPPORTABLE
Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - UNSUPPORTABLE
Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - MORRIS-CHAIR
A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised. - EASY-CHAIR
An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope. - BEDCHAIR
A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed. - ARMCHAIR
A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson. - ROCKING-CHAIR
A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock. - ELBOWCHAIR
A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.