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Backrest

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A rest or support for the back.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. a support that you can lean against while sitting.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a support that you can lean against while sitting

Word Usage

"The sun chair, its beams rising from the backrest, is a Rosenthal design, using borrowed and universal symbols, and it has been copied and interpreted so much that it has become part of the landscape."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

support

Hyponym

ladder-back cantle

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

back

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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