a comfortable chair with sides on which you can rest your arms:
to sit in an armchair
adjective [onlybeforenoun] knowing about a subject through books and television, rather than by doing it for yourself:
an armchair critic / traveller * a generation of armchair athletes who prefer to watch sports on TV rather than play
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for armchair is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is armchair a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, armchair is tagged as noun.
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