lawn chair
15
1.9
- noun
- /lɔn tʃɛr/
- US
:
silla de jardín
- After a long day, I love to relax in my lawn chair and enjoy the sunset.
And there was a guy sitting next to his car in a lawn chair.
- And there was a guy sitting next to his car in a lawn chair.
- We get in there and I tell you, there was a single foldable lawn chair in the middle of the living room, right?
- And everybody said that he and this girl that had sex on some lawn chairs out by a pool over summer.
Examples
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Several families waddle by armed with fold-up lawn chairs and coolers.
Fiction book (1999) -
Harold rushes off for the parade, joining other folks carrying baskets, lawn chairs, and flags on the sidewalk.
Fiction book (1999) -
I mean, yeah, compared to like a plastic lawn chair, yeah, sure.
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You know what this lawn chair reminds me of?
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I love to sit in a lawn chair 'cause there's no where else my mom allows me to sit.
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"Yeah," he says, shifting in his lawn chair, setting an ankle on top of a knee.
Fiction book (1999) -
Suburban Trust Bank to families sitting in lawn chairs along the curbs.
Fiction book (1991) -
Mike sits by himself by our cottage, in one of the tacky lawn chairs, reading a magazine.
Fiction book (1999) -
In youth soccer, parents lay out blankets and lawn chairs all around the circumference of the field.
Academic text (2006) -
Some VIPs watch from plastic lawn chairs on the veranda of the municipal building overlooking the square.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
6
1.9
A folding chair with a cloth seat for sitting on the beach
4
1.6
A folding outdoor chair with a wooden frame and a cloth seat used for sitting in the sun
1
1.3
A chair for sitting outside in a garden or on a lawn
1
1.6
A small folding chair you use outdoors, for example when camping
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'lawn chair' is directly derivable from combining 'lawn' (an area of grass) with 'chair' (a seat): it is a chair intended for use on a lawn or outdoors. This noun+noun compounding pattern is a straightforward, cross-linguistic modifier construction that a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand.
Etymology
Lawn chair is a simple name that paints a picture: a light, often folding chair set on the lawn or grass for sitting outside. Because people used these easy chairs at picnics and in gardens, the phrase now means 'a chair you can move and use outdoors'.