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Seats

noun

1.

An area that includes places where several people can sit. Synonyms: seating, seating area, seating room.

Seat

noun

1.

A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane). Synonym: place. "He sat in someone else's place"

2.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

3.

Furniture that is designed for sitting on.

4.

Any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit).

5.

A center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised).

6.

The location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based.

7.

The legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body.

8.

A part of a machine that supports or guides another part.

9.

The cloth covering for the buttocks.

verb

(past & past part. seated; pres. part. seating)

1.

Show to a seat; assign a seat for. Synonyms: sit, sit down.

2.

Be able to seat.

3.

Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position. Synonyms: induct, invest.

4.

Put a seat on a chair.

5.

Provide with seats.

6.

Place or attach firmly in or on a base.

7.

Place in or on a seat.

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"Seats" Quotes from Famous Books

... and terror, one evening towards five o'clock, on arriving at the theatre to get the tickets for our seats, ...

— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt

... overshadowed by a faint mist as of unfulfilment. The king rose and kneeled on one knee before her. All kneeled in like homage. Then the king would have yielded her his royal chair. But she made them all sit down, and with her own hands placed at the table seats for Derba and the page. Then in ruby crown and royal purple she ...

— The Princess and the Curdie • George MacDonald

... affection, and zeal unto the cause of God. And not only those who were neutral and indifferent, but disaffected and malignant, and others who were profane and scandalous were intrusted. By which it came to pass that judicatories, EVEN THEN, were the seats of injustice and iniquity. And many in their armies, by miscarriages, became their plague unto the great prejudice of the cause of God, the great scandal of the gospel, and the great increase of looseness and profanity throughout all the land." But, since the time of that acknowledgment ...

— The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and • The Reformed Presbytery

... Osborn. Walking was a sort of recreation not too dowdy. They went a little way on foot, then turned into a Tube station and travelled home. When they wormed their way down a crowded tube train compartment to two seats they were faced with the everyday aspect of life again. Tired people were going home; business men had not yet shaken off the pressure of their affairs; business women looked rather driven; here and there women with children worried themselves ...

— Married Life - The True Romance • May Edginton

... find thousands of gentlemen and ladies strolling singly, in pairs, or in groups. There could not be less than three thousand persons present. While the musicians repose, they loiter, sauntering round, or recline on seats. ...

— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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