sitting
Syllables: sit·ting/ˈsɪtɪŋ/
sitting noun: a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose. Also the present participle and gerund of sit.
Noun
sitting (plural sittings)
- A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
- The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
- A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- "It's not always easy to get him, and of course a small fee, a guinea I think, is usual, but if you wanted a sitting I could work it." "You think him genuine?" Atkinson shrugged his shoulders.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 special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
- The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
- we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
- An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
- I read it in two sittings.
Adjective
sitting (not comparable)
- Executed from a sitting position.
- Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising...2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
- It is an iron rule of French politics that sitting presidents are detested.2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian
- Of a bird, incubating eggs.
Also used as
sitting is also the present participle and gerund of sit.
sitting meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
sitting in Hindi
- बैठे हुए, बैठा हुआ
sitting in Tamil
- உட்காருதல், உட்காருவது
sitting in Telugu
- కూర్చోవడం, కూర్చున్నారు
sitting in Malayalam
- ഇരിക്കുന്നു, ഇരിക്കുന്നത്
More languagesFewer languages
- sitting in Kannada
- ಕುಳಿತುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು
- sitting in Punjabi
- ਬੈਠਾ ਹੋਇਆ, ਬੈਠੇ ਹੋਏ
- sitting in Gujarati
- બેસીને
- sitting in Malay
- persidangan
Examples of sitting in a sentence
- I'm just sitting here with a desk of cards, enjoying a slow afternoon.
- Sitting on the bench, the hem of her skirt touched the ground.
- As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
Forms of sitting
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Origin of sitting
From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zitting (“a sitting, session”), German Sitzung (“a sitting, session”), Swedish sittning (“a sitting, session”).
From Middle English sittinge, sittynge, variant of sittinde, sittende, sittande, from Old English sittende (“sitting”), from Proto-Germanic *sitjandz (“sitting”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian sittend (“sitting”), Dutch zittend (“sitting”), German sitzend (“sitting”), Swedish sittande (“sitting”), Icelandic sitjandi (“sitting”).
Words formed from sitting
Phrases with sitting
- sitting by
- sitting in
- sitting on
- sitting up
- cat sitting
- dog sitting
- pet sitting
- sitting for
- sitting off
- sitting out
- baby sitting
- sitting back
54 more phrasesFewer phrases
- sitting down
- sitting over
- sitting room
- sitting upon
- sitting with
- house sitting
- plant sitting
- sitting about
- sitting ducks
- sitting in on
- sitting loose
- sitting on it
- sitting right
- sitting rooms
- sitting shiva
- sitting still
- sitting table
- sitting tight
- sitting under
- sitting around
- sitting in for
- sitting member
- sitting tables
- sitting toilet
- sitting idly by
- sitting loosely
- sitting members
- sitting tenants
- sitting through
- sitting toilets
- sitting up with
- apartment sitting
- take sitting down
- sitting volleyball
- sitting in judgment
- sitting in judgement
- sitting on one's ass
- sitting on the fence
- sitting on one's arse
- is anyone sitting here
- sitting on one's hands
- sitting one's ass down
- sitting one's butt down
- sitting on one's laurels
- from where one is sitting
- sitting on someone's wheel
- sitting back on one's heels
- sitting on death's doorstep
- sitting up and taking notice
- saw off the branch one is sitting on
- saws off the branch one is sitting on
- sawn off the branch one was sitting on
- sawed off the branch one was sitting on
- sawing off the branch one is sitting on
Words that rhyme with sitting
Questions about sitting
- What does sitting mean?
- Sitting means a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- What is sitting in Hindi?
- Sitting in Hindi is बैठे हुए, बैठा हुआ. See Sitting meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sitting?
- Sitting can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sitting?
- Sitting is pronounced /ˈsɪtɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of sitting?
- The plural of sitting is sittings.
Words near sitting in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sitting (page history and authors); sitting (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitting (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitting (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitting (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitting (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitting (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sitting (Gujarati, 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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