Sitting

Quick meaning: Sitting is a noun meaning A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

Meaning

A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

More Meanings

1. A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
2. A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
3. The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
4. A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
5. The incubation of eggs by a bird.
6. A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
7. (idiomatic) An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

Example Sentences

I read it in two sittings.

The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.

we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs

It is an iron rule of French politics that sitting presidents are detested.

Word Forms

• sittings

Synonyms for sitting

Depending on context, synonyms include unmoving, nonmoving, seance, session, posing.

Antonyms for sitting

Common opposites include standing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include posing, unmoving, nonmoving, session, seance, seating.

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