Armchair

//ˈɑɹmt͡ʃɛɚ//

Synonyms for "armchair" (17 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

abstract academic chair closet

Strong matches (5)

Noun(1 words)

closet

conjectural couch hassock hypothetical

Related words (8)

ideal impractical moot notional seat sofa speculative theoretical

Related word relations

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11 relation types

More general

2 entries

chair furniture

Related terms

1 entries

ivory tower

at location

6 entries

apartment furniture store hospital livin room lounge study

coordinate

2 entries

couch sofa

derived

12 entries

armchair copy armchair critic armchair criticism armchair general armchair hawk armchair linguistics armchair psychologist armchair psychology armchair quarterback armchair strategist armchair tick armchair traveller

has a

3 entries

back four legs two arms

is a

6 entries

chair comfortable place to sit furniture upholstered furniture mc where people sit and relax wider than person

meronym

1 entries

arm

related to

12 entries

actual advice arm chair elbow involvement person remote retired support uninformed unqualified

similar

2 entries

couch sofa

used for

16 entries

head of table identifying host living room or family room lounging in reading relaxing relaxing in resting resting in seat sit in sitter sitting sitting in watching television watching television while sitting in

Translations

147 translations across 76 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

leunstoel noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Albanian

1 entries

kolltuk noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἐπίκλιντρον noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Arabic

3 entries

أَرِيكَة noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
كُرْسِيّ noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
كُرْسِيّ ذُو ذِرَاعَيْن noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Armenian

1 entries

բազկաթոռ noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

koltuk noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
kreslo noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Basque

1 entries

besaulki noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Belarusian

2 entries

крэ́сла noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
фатэ́ль noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Bengali

1 entries

আর্মচেয়ার noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Bulgarian

2 entries

кресло́ noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
фотьо́йл noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Catalan

3 entries

butaca noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
cadiral noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
poltrona noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

扶手椅 noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
扶手椅子 noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Czech

1 entries

křeslo noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Danish

2 entries

armstol noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
lænestol noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Dutch

2 entries

fauteuil noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
leunstoel noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Erzya

1 entries

нежезем noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Esperanto

3 entries

apogseĝo noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
brakseĝo noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
fotelo noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Estonian

1 entries

tugitool noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Faroese

1 entries

armstólur noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Finnish

4 entries

harrastelija adj (unqualified or uninformed)
nojatuoli adj (remote from actual involvement)
penkki adj (remote from actual involvement)
sohva adj (remote from actual involvement)

French

2 entries

chaise bourrée noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
fauteuil noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Galician

3 entries

cadeira noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
cadeira de brazos noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
poltrona noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Georgian

1 entries

სავარძელი noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

German

4 entries

küchen adj (unqualified or uninformed)
Armsessel noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
Fauteuil noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
Lehnsessel noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Greek

1 entries

πολυθρόνα noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Hebrew

1 entries

כֻּרְסָה noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Hindi

2 entries

आराम-कुर्सी noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
हाथकुर्सी noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Hungarian

3 entries

fotel noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
karosszék noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
karszék noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Icelandic

3 entries

armstóll noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
hægindastóll noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
hægindi noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Ido

1 entries

berjero noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Indonesian

2 entries

kursi berlengan noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
kursi bersandaran noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Interlingua

2 entries

chaise de bracios noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
confortabile noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Iranian Persian

1 entries

صَنْدَلیِ راحَتی noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Irish

2 entries

cathaoir uilleach noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
cathaoir uilleann noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Italian

1 entries

poltrona noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Japanese

2 entries

アームチェア noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
肘掛け椅子 noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Karelian

1 entries

nojastuula noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Kazakh

1 entries

кресло noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Khmer

1 entries

កៅអីសាឡុង noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Korean

2 entries

안락의자 noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
팔걸이의자 noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

кресло noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Latvian

1 entries

atpūtas krēsls noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Lithuanian

2 entries

fotelis noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
krėslas noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Fotell noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Macedonian

1 entries

фоте́лја noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Malay

1 entries

kerusi berlengan noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Maltese

1 entries

pultruna noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Mongolian

2 entries

түшлэгтэй сандал noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
ᠲᠦᠰᠢᠯᠭᠡ ᠲᠡᠢ ᠰᠠᠨᠳᠠᠯᠢ noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Māori

2 entries

hānea noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
hāneanea noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Norman

1 entries

grand'tchaîse noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Northern Kurdish

3 entries

paldank noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
palkursî noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
qoltix noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

armstol noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
lenestol noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

armstol noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
lenestol noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Occitan

2 entries

fautuelh noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
fautuèlh noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

фотеля noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Polish

1 entries

fotel noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Portuguese

2 entries

cadeirão noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
poltrona noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Romanian

1 entries

fotoliu noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Russian

4 entries

дива́нный adj (unqualified or uninformed)
диванный adj (remote from actual involvement)
мамкин adj (remote from actual involvement)
кре́сло noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

cathair ghàirdeanach noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
cathair mhòr noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
cathair-uilne noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
suidheachan mòr noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

fotèlja noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
naslonjača noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
naslònjāč noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
насло̀ња̄ч noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Slovak

1 entries

kreslo noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Slovene

1 entries

fotelj noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Spanish

4 entries

de salón adj (remote from actual involvement)
de salón adj (unqualified or uninformed)
de sillón adj (remote from actual involvement)
de sillón adj (unqualified or uninformed)

Swedish

2 entries

fåtölj noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
karmstol noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Tajik

1 entries

кресло noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Thai

2 entries

เก้าอี้นั่ง noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
เก้าอี้มีเท้าแขน noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Turkish

1 entries

koltuk noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Turkmen

1 entries

kreslo noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Ukrainian

3 entries

дива́нний adj (remote from actual involvement)
крі́сло noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
фоте́ль noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Urdu

1 entries

آرام کُرْسِی noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Uzbek

1 entries

kreslo noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Vietnamese

1 entries

ghế bành noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Volapük

2 entries

bradastul noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
stutömastul noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Welsh

3 entries

cadair fawr noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
cadair freichiau noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
cadeiriau mawr noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Yiddish

2 entries

פֿאָטעל noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
פֿאָטערשטול noun (chair with supports for the arms or elbows)

Sample sentences

30 total sentences available.

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Also, "armchair shopping" gets rid of the frustrations of crowds and traffic.

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Tom Skeleton, the ancient stage doorkeeper, sat in his battered armchair, listening as the actors came up the stone stairs from their dressing rooms.

Source: tatoeba (241293)

He settled down in his armchair to listen to the music.

Source: tatoeba (294204)

He is an armchair theorist.

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