sitter
UK/ˈsɪtə/US/ˈsɪtɚ/
sitter noun: someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
Noun
sitter (plural sitters)
- Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
- The photograph caused a stir last week because it was shortlisted for the National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious Taylor Wessing prize, despite the rule that “all photographs must have been taken by the entrant from life and with a living sitter”.
- However realistic Erica may be, and to me she looks more like a sex doll than a real person, she was certainly not a living sitter.2017 September 10, Nigel Warburton, “What does a portrait of Erica the android tell us about being human?”, in The Observer
- One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
- It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
- Those domestic worries came through in pop-culture depictions of the sitter. In the midst of the 1960s sexual revolution, she was often portrayed as a temptress, seducing fathers when mom was away; in the ’70s, she started showing up in horror movies, trapped with a killer in the house and kids to...2024 March 19, Faith Hill, “Don’t Tell America the Babysitter’s Dead”, in The Atlantic
- A sitting room.
- A participant in a séance who is not a medium.
- "The sitters had better just take their own places," said the medium.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
- A broody hen.
- A very easy scoring chance.
- How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!
- Aaron Ramsey, a hero last season against Hull, missed a sitter at the end of normal time that would have made the game safe and must have been relieved that his shot against a post from four yards out did not cost his side more dearly.2015 April 18, Paul Wilson, The Guardian
- Someone who accompanies a person who is taking a psychedelic drug, to provide reassurance in case of a bad trip.
Proper noun capitalized: Sitter
Sitter (countable and uncountable, plural Sitters)
- A surname.
- A river in north-east Switzerland, a tributary of the Thur.
sitter meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu
sitter in Hindi
- सिटर
sitter in Tamil
- உட்கார்ந்திருப்பவர்
sitter in Marathi
- सिटर, बसणारा
sitter in Telugu
- సిట్టర్
More languagesFewer languages
- sitter in Malayalam
- സിറ്റർ
- sitter in Kannada
- ಸಿಟ್ಟರ್
- sitter in Punjabi
- ਸਿਟਰ
- sitter in Gujarati
- સિટર
- sitter in Nepali
- सिटर, सिटटर
Examples of sitter in a sentence
- A burstlet of brain confusion kept me from grasping what the pet sitter was saying.
- Farther-feeling as distinct from far-feeling, i.e., from a distance instead of from the sitter.
- As a psychedelic researcher, she was a “trip sitter” the straight person charting drug trips and documenting the findings.
Forms of sitter
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sitters |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sitters |
Origin of sitter
From Middle English sitter, sittere, syttare, equivalent to sit + -er.
Words formed from sitter
- aisle sitter
- babysitter
- bedsitter
- bed-sitter
- birdsitter
- bysitter
- catsitter
- childsitter
- dogsitter
- facesitter
- fence-sitter
- fence sitter
- granny-sitter
- hand-sitter
- homesitter
- house-sitter
- house sitter
- nonsitter
- petsitter
- pigsitter
- polesitter
- pole-sitter
- puppysitter
- sitter-in
- tailsitter
- teen-sitter
- trip sitter
- window sitter
Phrases with sitter
Words that rhyme with sitter
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Questions about sitter
- What does sitter mean?
- Sitter means someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
- What is sitter in Hindi?
- Sitter in Hindi is सिटर. See Sitter meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sitter?
- Sitter can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sitter?
- Sitter is pronounced /ˈsɪtə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sitter?
- The plural of sitter is sitters.
Words near sitter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sitter (page history and authors); Sitter (page history and authors); sitter (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sitter (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitter (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitter (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitter (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitter (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitter (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitter (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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