seat
seat is a 4-letter English word with 29 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- noun. A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
- transitive verb. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
- transitive verb. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- transitive verb. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
- transitive verb. To fix; to set firm.
- transitive verb. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
- transitive verb. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
- intransitive verb. To rest; to lie down.
- noun. any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)
"he dusted off the seat before sitting down"
- noun. furniture that is designed for sitting on
"there were not enough seats for all the guests"
- noun. the cloth covering for the buttocks
"the seat of his pants was worn through"
- noun. a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
- noun. the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body
"he was elected to a seat in the Senate"
- noun. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"
"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
- noun. the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based
"the brain is said to be the seat of reason"
- noun. a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
"he booked their seats in advance"
"he sat in someone else's place"
- noun. a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
- verb. show to a seat; assign a seat for
"The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"
- verb. place in or on a seat
"the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"
- verb. place or attach firmly in or on a base
"seat the camera on the tripod"
- verb. provide with seats
"seat a concert hall"
- verb. put a seat on a chair
- verb. place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
"there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
- verb. be able to seat
"The theater seats 2,000"
Synonyms
arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rump, stern, tail, tooshie, tush
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in seat:
ates, east, eats, etas, sate, seta, tase, teas
Common word forms
seats, seated, seater, seating, seatless
Words from these letters
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