seat

English Online Dictionary. What means seat‎? What does seat mean?

English

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”).

Sense 2 (“location or site”) is probably derived from Old English sǣte (“house”), which is related to Old High German sāza (“sedan, seat, domicile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Hyphenation: seat

Noun

seat (plural seats)

1. Something to be sat upon.
   1. A place in which to sit.
   2. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.

   3. A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
      1. (aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.

   4. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.

   5. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.

   6. (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.

3. A location or site.
   1. (figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

   2. The location of a governing body.
   3. (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
   4. A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
   5. The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.
   6. (law, England and Wales) One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.
   7. (historical) Any of several autonomous regions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
4. The starting point of a fire.
5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

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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; to fix; to set firm.
2. (transitive) To provide with a place to sit.
3. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.

4. (transitive, legislature) 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.

5. (transitive) To assign the seats of.

6. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
9. (transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.

Derived terms

• seat down
• seat out
• seated (adjective)
• seating (noun)
• unseat

Translations

See also

• seat of learning
• seat of wisdom
• seat of honor
• sedentary
• see
• sit

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, East, TEAs, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seta, tase, teas

Romansch

Alternative forms

• set (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
• siat (Sursilvan)

Etymology

From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Number

seat

1. (Sutsilvan) seven