chair
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7.1
- noun
- /tʃɛr/
- Formal
:
cátedra
- David Patterson is the Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.
- endowed chair
- hold the chair
- offer a chair
Guillen is from IECCO and is the UNESCO Chair at Valencia University.
- Guillen is from IECCO and is the UNESCO Chair at Valencia University.
- And she's also Isaiah Berlin, Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute.
- You have risen to the top of academia with an endowed chair here at Stanford Medical School.
- And he is a he becomes the first Franciscan to hold a university chair at Paris.
- He's he's professor of poetry at Oxford University, one of the most important chairs in British academia.
Examples
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Professor John A. Salmond holds the Chair of American History at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.
Academic text (1993) -
Marc K. Landy is professor and chair of political science at Boston College.
Academic text (1999) -
Chair of the Royal College.
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I'm a professor of English and the chair of the Committee on Medieval Studies.
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She's also the chair of the Stanford English Department.
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He has a chair in history at Princeton.
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You have risen to the top of academia with an endowed chair here at Stanford Medical School.
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Dorothy Sisk is the Dorothy Ann and C.W. Conn Chair in Education at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas.
Academic text (1992) -
I'm a professor of English and the chair of the Committee on Medieval Studies.
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You have risen to the top of academia with an endowed chair here at Stanford Medical School.
Synonyms
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6.7
The job and rank of a senior teacher at a university
Idioms
- Informal
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6.4
To react strongly because something is very funny or surprising
Compounds
- NSFW
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5.3
A chair used to put a person to death by sending electricity through their body
- UK
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1.6
A folding outdoor chair with a wooden frame and a cloth seat used for sitting in the sun
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1.9
A large adjustable chair with headrest and footrest used in a barbershop for haircuts and shaves
- Specialized
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3.2
A chair in a dentist's office that tilts and holds a patient during treatment
- Baby Talk
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2.1
A small seat a child sits on to pee or poo when learning to use the toilet
- Specialized
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7.5
A strong fixed chair on a fishing boat that holds a person while they fight large fish
- Offensive
A chair with wheels and a cover that a helper pushes to carry sick people at resorts
- Specialized
A strong seat hung by ropes to hold a person working high on a ship
- Specialized
A seat hung from ropes that holds a person while they work high above, for example on a ship
- Indian
A part of a train with comfortable individual seats for daytime travel that costs extra
- Formal
A special decorated chair used in ceremonies for a ruler or other important person
How Prestigious
- Formal
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7.1
- Formal
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6.7
- US
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3.9
- Formal
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6.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chair for a university position comes from the idea of a named 'seat' of teaching and honour, like a special place for a senior teacher. That is why holding a chair at a university means having an important, often paid, academic post.