Word Meaning

seat definition and meaning

n. The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
n. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
n. That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
n. A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.
n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
n. A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
v. t. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
v. t. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
v. t. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
v. t. To fix; to set firm.
v. t. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
v. t. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
v. i. To rest; to lie down.

Crossword clues for seat

- A chair etc.
- Bench
- Board position
- Chair
- Chair, etc.
- Constituency
- Fulcrum
- Furniture item
- implant or insert firmly
- Listen to
- Parliamentary constituency