armchair
(noun) chair with a support on each side for arms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
armchair (plural armchairs)
A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
• chair
• furniture
• arm
• couch
• sofa
armchair (not comparable)
(figuratively) Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.
(figuratively) Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports.
armchair (third-person singular simple present armchairs, present participle armchairing, simple past and past participle armchaired)
To create based on theory or general knowledge rather than data.
To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; to reflect.
Source: Wiktionary
Arm"chair`, n.
Definition: A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
