Seat

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English

Noun

Seat (plural Seats)
  1. A place in which to sit.
    There are two hundred seats in this classroom.
  2. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
    He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat which always annoyed his mother.
  3. A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
    She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.
  4. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
    Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".
    The seat of the valve had become corroded.
  5. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
    The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.
  6. A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
    Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.
  7. The location of a governing body.
    Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.
  8. (certain Commonwealth countries) an electoral district, especially for a national legislature.

Derived terms

Terms derived from seat

Verb

Seat (third-person singular simple present Seats, present participle Seating, simple past and past participle Seated)

  1. (transitive): To put an object into a place where it will rest.
    Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
  2. (transitive): To provide places to sit.
    This classroom seats two hundred students.

Adjectives for Seat

proffered; rustic; glorious; battered; pleasant; splayed; favorite; airy; chief est; princely; storied; regal; supreme; cheap; blissful; dismal; shady; secure; venerable; rural; capacious; luxurious; exalted; imperial; ancestral.

Verbs for Seat

arrange—s; discover—; emerge from—; fill—s; group—s; mark—; number—s; occupy—; offer—; order—; pad—; proffer—; range—s; relinquish—; reserve—; slump in —; vacate—; wedge into—; —accommodates; —collapses.

Adverbs for Seat

musingly; peacefully; airily; cozily; carelessly; abruptly; wearily; drowsily; idly; calmly; rustically; regally; blissfully; exaltedly; imperially; ostentatiously; modestly; demurely; unobtrusively.

Thesaurus

CP, Eames chair, GHQ, HQ, Hitchcock chair, TV chair, abiding place, abode, accommodate, address, angle, armchair, armless chair, arse, ass, back seat, backside, banquette, bar stool, barber chair, barrel chair, base, base of operations, basement, basis, basket chair, batwing chair, beam, bearing wall, bed, bed chair, bedding, bedrock, behind, bench, bicycle seat, bottom, boudoir chair, bow-back chair, bucket seat, build, build in, bum, butt, buttocks, camp chair, campaign chair, can, cantonment, capital, capital city, center of authority, central administration, central office, central station, chair, club chair, club lounge chair, comb-back chair, command post, company headquarters, confirm, contain, contour chair, county seat, county site, county town, cradle, crash pad, crib, cricket, cricket chair, curule chair, dais, deep-dye, define, derriere, dining chair, distance, domicile, domus, draft chair, duff, dwelling, dwelling place, easy chair, elbowchair, embed, engraft, engrave, ensconce, enthrone, entrench, establish, estate, etch, fan-back chair, fanny, fauteuil, fender stool, fix, floor, flooring, focal point, focus, folding chair, foldstool, fond, footing, form, found, foundation, fundament, fundamental, garden chair, general headquarters, ground, grounds, groundwork, habitation, hardpan, hassock, headquarters, heart, helm, high chair, hindquarters, hold, home, horse, hub, impact, implant, impress, imprint, incumbency, infix, ingrain, inscribe, install, instate, invest, jam, ladder-back chair, lay, lay the foundation, lodge, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, main office, mansion, membership, milking stool, nerve, nest, ottoman, overstuffed chair, pack, pad, park, pavement, perspective, pew, pitch, place, place to live, plant, platform rocker, pose, posit, position, post, posterior, principle, print, put, put in, put up, radical, rear end, residence, riprap, rock bottom, rocker, rocking chair, roof, root, rudiment, rump, saddle, seat of government, seat of power, seat of state, seating, sedan chair, set, set in, set up, settee, settle, shire town, sill, sit, site, sofa, solid ground, solid rock, stamp, stand, standing, station, status, step stool, stereobate, stereotype, stick, stool, stylobate, submit, substratum, substruction, substructure, swear in, swing, taboret, tail, terra firma, throne, tush, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, venue, vest, viewpoint, wedge, woolsack

Etymology

Middle English, from Old Norse sæti, compare Old English set

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

place in which to sit
horizontal portion of a chair
part of an object or individual directly involved in sitting
part of clothing
membership in a representative body
location of a governing body
electoral district
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Verb

to put an object into a place
to provide places to sit
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Anagrams

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