Singular

Plural

the chairman

the chairmen

Worttrennung:

chair·man, Plural: chair·men

Aussprache:

IPA: britisch: [ˈtʃɛːmən]
IPA: US-amerikanisch: [ˈtʃɛɹmən]
Hörbeispiele:   chairman (US-amerikanisch) (Info)

Bedeutungen:

[1] Vorsitzender
[2] geschichtlich: Sänftenträger

Herkunft:

um 1650, chair + man[1]

Weibliche Wortformen:

[1] chairwoman

Beispiele:

[1] The former chairman of the company was convicted of embezzlement.
[1] He was the chairman of the university's department of psychology.
[2] In the past, devout chairmen carried the pope around on his mobile throne, the sedia gestatoria.
[2] Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no hopes of having any future good customer in the squire […][2]

Übersetzungen

Bearbeiten
[1] Englischer Wikipedia-Artikel „chairman
[1, 2] Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary „chairman
[1] Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus „chairman
[1, 2] Dictionary.com Englisch-Englisches Wörterbuch, Thesaurus und Enzyklopädie „chairman
[1] PONS Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „chairman
[1, 2] dict.cc Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „chairman
[1] LEO Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „chairman

Quellen:

  1. Dictionary.com Englisch-Englisches Wörterbuch, Thesaurus und Enzyklopädie „chairman“, Online Etymology Dictionary „chairman
  2. Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)