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# armchair

«armchair» in Mova's school dictionary: **a comfortable chair with side parts to rest your arms on** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an armchair, armchairs); adjective (armchair — before a noun)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An armchair is a comfortable chair with side parts to rest your arms on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/#m1)

2) (informal, before a noun) Armchair describes someone who talks about or follows something without doing it themselves: an armchair fan, an armchair traveller, an armchair expert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in describing homes and stories («Grandpa dozed in his armchair»), and in everyday talk about people who only watch or talk.

### examples

- Grandpa fell asleep in his armchair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/#x1)
- The cat curled up on the armchair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/#x2)
- We bought a big red armchair for the living room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/#x3)
- He's an armchair football fan who never plays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/#x4)
- She is an armchair traveller who loves reading about far-off places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/#x5)
- Armchair experts on TV always know what the coach should have done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/#x6)
- They were together in the armchair by this time, and Wendy plied him with more questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/#x7)

### note

Compound: arm + chair. «Armchair» as an adjective is often a little mocking: an «armchair critic» judges without real experience.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «armchair» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/armchair/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.