Word Definition

Seat

  1. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
  2. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
  3. To fix; to set firm.
  4. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
  5. 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.
  6. A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
  7. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
  8. 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.
  9. To rest; to lie down.
  10. 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.
  11. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
  12. 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.
  13. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.