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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

take a chair en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To sit down (usually, but not always, in a chair).
    • Consequently Mr. Micawber was soon so overcome, that he mingled his tears with hers and mine; until he begged me to do him the favour of taking a chair on the staircase, while he got her into bed. 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
taken a chair Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
takes a chair Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
taking a chair Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
took a chair Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

take a seat · take the chair · pull up a chair