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Definition seat

Etymology

From Middle English sete, from Old English s?te and Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *s?tij? (“seat”); compare Old English set (“seat”). Compare also Old High German gisazi (German Gesäß), Middle Dutch gesaete. Sense of "residence, abode, established place" likely derived from cognate Old English s?te (“house”), related to Old High German s?za (“sedan, seat, domicile”).

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; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
   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.
2. 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.
3. The starting point of a fire.
4. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

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 places 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. To put a seat or bottom in.

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