seat

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /siːt/

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Noun

Singular seat

Plural seats

1. A seat is something to sit on.
   • Synonym: chair

   Pull up a seat and sit down.

2. The seat is a part of the clothes covering the buttocks.
   • Synonyms: rear and back

   The seat of your pants is muddy.

3. Seat is where something is, at the centre of things.

   The town was the county seat, where the county council met.

   Canberra is the seat of the Australian Government.

Related words

• four-seater
• on the edge of one’s seat
• seatbelt
• seating
• two-seater

Verb

Plain form seat

Third-person singular seats

Past tense seated

Past participle seated

Present participle seating

1. (transitive) To seat is to help someone sit down.

   Follow me. I will seat you near the stage.

   I will pull out your chair to seat you.

Related words

• unseat