chairwoman

English

Etymology

From chair +‎ -woman.

Noun

chairwoman (plural chairwomen)

1. A female chairperson
   • 1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland

     At a Reform dinner which took place in 1832, the united ages of three women, including the chairwoman, amounted to 264.

2. (obsolete) A charwoman
   • a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “(please specify the title)”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to XIX), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:

     […] according to her skill and qualifications, whether in the nature of a dairy-maid, a cook, or chairwoman.

Synonyms

• chairmaness

Hypernyms

• chair, chairperson
• presiding officer, presider

Coordinate terms

• chairman

Derived terms

• chairwomanship
• cochairwoman

 

Translations

female chairperson

• Arabic: رَئِيسَة f (raʔīsa)
• Belarusian: старшыня́ m or f (staršynjá) (chairman or chairwoman), галава́ (be) m or f (halavá) (chairman or chairwoman)
• Bulgarian: председа́телка f (predsedátelka)
• Czech: předsedkyně (cs) f
• Dutch: voorzitster (nl) f
• Esperanto: prezidantino
• Finnish: puheenjohtaja (fi)
• French: secrétaire générale (fr) f (political party), présidente (fr) f
• German: Vorsitzende (de) f
• Irish: cathaoirleach m
• Italian: presidentessa (it) f, presidente (it) f
• Latvian: priekšsēdētāja f
• Lithuanian: pirmininkė f
• Macedonian: претседателка f (pretsedatelka), претседавачка f (pretsedavačka)
• Polish: przewodnicząca (pl) f
• Romanian: președintă (ro) f
• Russian: председа́тельница (ru) f (predsedátelʹnica), председа́тельша (ru) f (predsedátelʹša) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре́дседница f, пре́дсједница f

  Roman: prédsednica f, prédsjednica (sh) f

• Slovak: predsedníčka f
• Slovene: predsedujoča f, predsednica f
• Spanish: presidenta (es) f
• Ukrainian: голова́ (uk) m or f (holová) (chairman or chairwoman), голови́ха f (holovýxa) (rare)
• White Hmong: tswv rooj