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Seat

noun

1.

A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane). Synonym: place. "He sat in someone else's place"

2.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

3.

Furniture that is designed for sitting on.

4.

Any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit).

5.

A center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised).

6.

The location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based.

7.

The legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body.

8.

A part of a machine that supports or guides another part.

9.

The cloth covering for the buttocks.

verb

(past & past part. seated; pres. part. seating)

1.

Show to a seat; assign a seat for. Synonyms: sit, sit down.

2.

Be able to seat.

3.

Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position. Synonyms: induct, invest.

4.

Put a seat on a chair.

5.

Provide with seats.

6.

Place or attach firmly in or on a base.

7.

Place in or on a seat.

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"Seat" Quotes from Famous Books

... answered Allis. "Let me put my finger on the number for good luck," and she touched the badge on his arm. "Now I'm going up to get a good seat in the stand," she continued; "I'll leave Lucretia ...

— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser

... pressed to take a seat, and Lennox, to whom Banquo's ghost was invisible, showed him the chair ...

— Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare • E. Nesbit

... these two, of the hindmost seat in the canoe, for the back of each was unspeakable from the spear-prods. Without a word McElroy took his punishment as the lagging became more pronounced from arms overtaxed at the paddles, but the long-haired adventurer from the Saskatchewan ...

— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe

... grand. Such a will, too! That is what I like in a woman. Such a courage! She never flinched in those horrid days, never. And when he called her—you know what—she only looked at him, just looked at him, miserable object. Oh, it was beautiful!" And Madame Gordeloup, rising in her energy from her seat for the purpose, strove to throw upon Harry such another glance as the injured, insulted wife had thrown ...

— The Claverings • Anthony Trollope

... present to Your Majesties the homage of our respects, and to thank you for the noble present you have made to our land in the person of your illustrious daughter, Madame, Duchess of Berry. May the future Queen of Spain long embellish the throne on which she is about to take her seat, and reign over the hearts of her new subjects as her heroic sister reigns over ours. Long live the King! ...

— The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X • Imbert De Saint-Amand

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