Chairman vs Emeritus - What's the difference?
chairman | emeritus |
A person (implied male) presiding over a meeting.
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
(historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 618:
* 1836 , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers ?
Retired, but retaining an honorific version of previous title (especially "professor").
A person retired in this sense (feminine form emerita).
* 1955 , Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita :
As nouns the difference between chairman and emeritus
is that chairman is a person (implied male) presiding over a meeting while emeritus is a person retired in this sense (feminine form emerita).As an adjective emeritus is
retired, but retaining an honorific version of previous title (especially "professor").chairman
English
(wikipedia chairman)Noun
(chairmen)- Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen ; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no hopes of having any future good customer in the squire [...]
- Mr. Winkle, catching sight of a lady's face at the window of the sedan, turned hastily round, plied the knocker with all his might and main, and called frantically upon the chairman to take the chair away again.
Usage notes
Historically meant a man, now also used for women.Antonyms
* chairwomanHypernyms
* chair, chairperson * presiding officer, presiderAnagrams
* English nouns with irregular pluralsemeritus
English
Adjective
(wikipedia emeritus) (-)Noun
(emeriti)- Oh, you veteran crime reporter, you grave old usher, you once popular policeman, now in solitary confinement after gracing that school crossing for years, you wretched emeritus read to by a boy!