Definition of "seat" in English

noun

1. Something to be sat upon.

2. A location or site.

3. The starting point of a fire.

4. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

verb

1. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.

   • Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.

2. (transitive) To provide with a place to sit.

   • This classroom seats two hundred students.
   • The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.

3. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.

   • Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.

4. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.

   • Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.
   • You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section.

5. (transitive) To assign the seats of.

   • to seat a church

6. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

   • This valve isn't seating properly.

7. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.

8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.

   • to seat a country

9. (transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.

   • to seat a chair