seat

noun

1》 a thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool.

    ↘the roughly horizontal part of a chair.

    ↘a sitting place for a passenger in a vehicle or for a member of an audience.

2》 a person's buttocks.

    ↘a manner of sitting on a horse.

3》 a place in an elected parliament or council.

    ↘Brit. a parliamentary constituency.

4》 a site or location.

    ↘(also country seat) Brit. a large country house and estate belonging to an aristocratic family.

5》 a part of a machine that supports or guides another participle

verb

1》 arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere.

    ↘(seat oneself or be seated) sit down.

    ↘(of a building or vehicle) have sufficient seats for.

2》 fit in position.

Derivatives

seating noun

seatless adjective

Origin

ME (asnoun): from ON sæti, from the Gmc base of sit.