CHAIRWOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chairwoman mean? 

• CHAIRWOMAN (noun)
  The noun CHAIRWOMAN has 1 sense:

1. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

  Familiarity information: CHAIRWOMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAIRWOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chair; chairman; chairperson; chairwoman; president

Context example:

address your remarks to the chairperson

Hypernyms ("chairwoman" is a kind of...):

presiding officer (the leader of a group meeting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chairwoman"):

Kalon Tripa (the chairman of the Kashag and essentially head of the Tibetan government-in-exile)

vice chairman (one ranking below or serving in the place of a chairman)