garden chair
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- noun
- /ˈɡɑrdən tʃɛr/
- UK
:
silla de jardín
- Ambassador Featherson shifted forward in his iron garden chair.
- an iron garden chair
Examples
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You know, like a garden chair next to my window or footprint in the garden.
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We've only got four garden chairs.
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He put away his question sheet and pushed himself out of the garden chair while I dressed up for the meeting.
Fiction book (1993) -
She sat down in one of the garden chairs and ate the pear so that juice ran down her chin and between her fingers.
Fiction book (1995) -
Eduard sat back down in the white garden chair, wishing he could enjoy the remaining breakfast on the plate, but Ob had already eaten his fill, and this body was no longer hungry.
Fiction book (2000) -
Amy lowered herself onto one of the garden chairs to relax in the sun.
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They enjoyed their afternoon tea while sitting on bright blue garden chairs in the backyard.
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She arranged the garden chairs around the table for the outdoor dinner party.
Synonyms
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1.9
A light folding seat for sitting outside on grass
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1.9
A folding chair with a cloth seat for sitting on the beach
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A folding outdoor chair with a wooden frame and a cloth seat used for sitting in the sun
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'garden' (an outdoor area) + 'chair' (a seat); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a chair for outdoor/garden use. This modifier+noun pattern is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common compound, so no special idiomatic knowledge is required.
Etymology
Garden chair is a two-word name that joins garden and chair to mean a chair made for the garden. The clear picture of a chair sitting outside is why it means 'a chair designed to be used outdoors'.