seat
//siːt//
Forms
- Plural
- seats
- present (v1)
- seat
- past (v2)
- seated
- past participle (v3)
- seated
- present participle
- seating
- 3rd person singular
- seats
Definitions
1.Something to be sat upon.
- The seat of the valve had become corroded.
- There are two hundred seats in this classroom.
- The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.
2.A location or site.
- Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.
- Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.
- He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
3.The starting point of a fire.
- Go back to your seat.
4.Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.
1.To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
- From their foundations, loosening to and fro, / They plucked the seated hills.
2.To provide with a place to sit.
- This classroom seats two hundred students.
- The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.
- The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
3.To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
4.To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
- You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section.
- Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1000
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); compare Old English set (“seat”).