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Plural of sitting

regular plural

The plural of sitting is sittings.

Forms of sitting

Singularsitting /ˈsɪtɪŋ/
Pluralsittings
Countablecountable

Sittings in a sentence

  • Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
  • The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
  • Hasidim also demonstrated discomfort with the lengthy sittings that a life portrait necessarily entailed.2010, Maya Balakirsky Katz, The Visual Culture of Chabad, page 21. From the entry rebbishe
  • After surgical wounds had fully healed, during several sittings a number of precise casts and countercasts were fashioned.2014, Faisar R. Ali et al., “World War One:The Department of Masks for Facial Disfigurements”, in JAMA Dermatology, volume 150, number 12. From the entry countercast
  • If the government wants to delay prorogation further, he maintained, ministers would have to make a fresh application at a UK court immediately to resuspend parliamentary sittings.2019 September 11, Owen Bowcott, Severin Carrell, “Scottish court ruling: what happens next in prorogation dispute?”, in The Guardian. From the entry resuspend

Meaning of sitting

  1. noun A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
  2. noun A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
  3. noun A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.

Full definition of sitting

Questions about the plural of sitting

What is the plural of sitting?
The plural of sitting is sittings.
Is sitting countable?
Sitting is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sitting (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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