Synonyms of the word

chairperson

• n. A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

chair

• n. An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for…
• n. Chairperson.
• n. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
• n. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers,…
• n. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly…
• n. (slang, with the) The electric chair.
• n. A distinguished professorship at a university.
• n. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse;…
• v. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
• v. (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
• v. (transitive, Wales, Britain) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

chairman

• n. A person (usually but not always a man) presiding over a meeting.
• n. The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
• n. (historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
• v. To serve as chairman.

chairwoman

• n. A female chairperson.
• n. (obsolete) A charwoman.

president

• n. The head of state of a republic, a representative democracy and sometimes a dictatorship.
• n. Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position…
• n. A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
• n. Obsolete form of precedent.
• adj. (archaic) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.