ARMCHAIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armchair mean? 

• ARMCHAIR (noun)
  The noun ARMCHAIR has 1 sense:

1. chair with a support on each side for arms

  Familiarity information: ARMCHAIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMCHAIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chair with a support on each side for arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("armchair" is a kind of...):

chair (a seat for one person, with a support for the back)

Meronyms (parts of "armchair"):

arm (the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armchair"):

captain's chair (a wooden armchair with a saddle seat and a low back that has vertical spindles)

easy chair; lounge chair; overstuffed chair (a comfortable upholstered armchair)

fauteuil (an upholstered armchair)

Morris chair (an armchair with an adjustable back)

lounger; recliner; reclining chair (an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it)

 Context examples 

His brother Mycroft was sitting smoking in the armchair.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You there, if you please, Soames! Watson you here! I’ll take the armchair in the middle.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The squire had had everything repaired, and the public rooms and the sign repainted, and had added some furniture—above all a beautiful armchair for mother in the bar.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He snuggled down in his armchair.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the post-boy and I had carried up the sea-chest and the two canvas bags, there he was sitting in his armchair by the window in his old weather-stained blue coat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was the great four-post bed with amber hangings as of old; there the toilet-table, the armchair, and the footstool, at which I had a hundred times been sentenced to kneel, to ask pardon for offences by me uncommitted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My friend hardly glanced up as I entered, and I, seeing that his investigation must be of importance, seated myself in an armchair and waited.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our visitor sank into an armchair and looked from one to the other of us with questioning eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sat in the armchair with the light shining upon his broad bald head, while he puffed sedately at his cigar.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)