seat

seat ► NOUN 1) a thing made or used for sitting on. 2) the horizontal part of a chair. 3) a sitting place for a passenger in a vehicle or for a member of an audience. 4) a person's buttocks. 5) chiefly Brit. a place in an elected parliament or council. 6) Brit. a parliamentary constituency. 7) a site or location. 8) a large country house and estate belonging to an aristocratic family. 9) a part of a machine that supports or guides another part. 10) a manner of sitting on a horse.

► VERB 1) arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere. 2) (seat oneself or be seated) sit down. 3) (of a place) have sufficient seats for.

DERIVATIVES seating noun seatless adjective.

ORIGIN Old Norse, related to SIT(Cf. ↑sit).