sitters

Noun

sitter (plural sitters)

1. 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
2. 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.
3. A sitting room.
4. 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
5. A broody hen.
6. (slang) A very easy scoring chance.
   • How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!

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