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.