Seat Meaning
/siːt/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounSomething to be sat upon.
nounSomething to be sat upon., A place in which to sit.
Sentence Examples
Go back to your seat.
The paint on the seat on which you are sitting is still wet.
She sat back in her seat.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The friendly usher guided the couple to their assigned ____ in the crowded theater.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She found an empty ____ near the window and settled in for the long journey.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); compare Old English set (“seat”). Noun sense 2 (“location or site”) is probably derived from Old English sǣte (“house”), which is related to Old High German sāza (“sedan, seat, domicile”). Cognates * Middle Dutch gesaete * Old High German gisazi (modern German Gesäß)
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Several pressmen have nearly lost their lives, to say nothing of the seats of their trousers, from these creatures."
— 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
"I love these new biker pants I bought! There's padding in the seat to protect my rear end."
— 2006 July 20, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
"The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition."
— 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
"[…] Grand Union proposes making a seat part of the price of a ticket, with 50% refunds for those travelling for longer than 30 minutes unable to obtain a seat."
— 2019 October, “South Wales open access bid”, in Modern Railways, page 15:
"The K'o-tzu-lo-su Kirghiz chou bordered on the K'o-shih chuan-ch'ü and its seat at A-t'u-shih was only twenty-five kilometers from K'o-shih shih."
— 1963, Henry G. Schwarz, Policies and Administration of Minority Areas in Northwest China and Inner Mongolia, 1949-1959, volume 2, →OCLC, page 338:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The friendly usher guided the couple to their assigned ____ in the crowded theater.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She found an empty ____ near the window and settled in for the long journey.