English Explanatory Dictionary

sitting

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
  2. A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
  3. A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
  4. The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
  5. A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
  6. The incubation of eggs by a bird.
  7. A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
  8. An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of sit
adj
  1. Executed from a sitting position.
  2. Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɪtɪŋ/ en-us-sitting.ogg

Word forms

sitting sittings

Etymology

From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zitting (“a sitting, session”), German Sitzung (“a sitting, session”), Swedish sittning (“a sitting, session”).

Derived words

downsitting fence-sitting homesitting in one sitting oversitting trip sitting upsitting W-sitting sitting pretty nonsitting non-sitting sitting duck sittingly sitting service sitting tenant unsitting

Translations

Bulgarian: мътене German: Brüten German: Gelege Northern Kurdish: kurkbûn Scottish Gaelic: suidhe m gur Swedish: ruvning
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