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seat

  • noun
  • /siːt/

Something to be sat upon.

Other meanings

  1. A place in which to sit.

  2. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.

A kind of

  • furniture

Kinds of seat

  • box
  • box seat
  • puff
  • stool
  • toilet seat

Related words

  • backseat
  • beseat
  • deseat
  • disseat
  • loveseat
  • multiseat
  • rearseat
  • seatearth
  • seatholder
  • seatie
  • seatless
  • seatlike

Example sentences

  • “The toilet seat was easy to install.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

  • “No, the seats weren't leather.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Old Norse "sæti".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “seat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.