seat

Meaning

Noun

1. Something to be sat upon.
2. Something to be sat upon.
3. Something to be sat upon.
4. (slang) Something to be sat upon.
5. Something to be sat upon.
6. Something to be sat upon.
7. Something to be sat upon.
8. (figuratively) A location or site.
9. A location or site.
10. A location or site.
11. A location or site.
12. A location or site.
13. (England, Wales) A location or site.
14. (historical) A location or site.
15. The starting point of a fire.
16. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

Verb

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) 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. (intransitive, obsolete) To rest; to lie down.
8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
9. (transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.

Synonyms

chair

🪑

place

stool

bench

buttocks

position

sit

🪑

bottom

location

put

set

nates

install

posterior

sit down

bum

abode

rear

site

behind

sitting

residence

fundament

stern

buns

backside

ass

🍑

keister

tail

butt

tooshie

arse

hindquarters

rear end

settle

prat

post

rump

fanny

derriere

bed

🛏️

can

tail end

hind end

tush

mat

locate

lay

room

situation

Translations

siège

💺

asiento

💺

Sitz

💺

sedia

🪑

posto

assento

💺

zetel

🪑

chaise

🪑

sedile

💺

silla

🪑

cadeira

🪑

asseoir

🪑

Stuhl

🪑

sedere

🪑

seient

💺

Pronounced as (IPA)

/siːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sete

Inherited from Old English: sǣte

Cognate with Old English: set

Cognate with Old High German: sāza

Cognate with Middle Dutch: gesaete

Cognate with Old High German: gisazi

Cognate with German: Gesäß

In summary

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”).
Cognates
* Middle Dutch gesaete
* Old High German gisazi (modern German Gesäß)

Sentences

Its seat is located in Lycksele.

It is northwest of Wellington , the county seat , and east of Hedley .

The seat of the municipality was in Kallithea.

Eicher filled a seat vacated by Alfred A .