Meaning

8 senses
  1. 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.

    Sitzung

    присестprisest

  2. A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.

  3. A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.

  4. The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.

  5. A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).

    Sitzung

    a meeting of spiritualists

  6. The incubation of eggs by a bird.

    Brüten, Gelege

  7. (collective)A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

    we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs

  8. (idiomatic)An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

    I read it in two sittings.

Examples

2533 sentences
  1. Mary is sitting at the desk.

    Мері сидить за столом.

    ruМэри сидит за партой.

    deMaria sitzt am Schreibtisch.

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  2. He was sitting on the floor.

    Він сидів на підлозі.

    ruОн сидел на полу.

    deEr saß auf dem Fußboden.

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  3. She was sitting under a tree.

    Вона сиділа під деревом.

    ruОна сидела под деревом.

    deSie saß unter einem Baum.

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  4. Tom was sitting on a bench.

    Том сидів на лавці.

    ruТом сидел на скамейке.

    deTom saß auf einer Bank.

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  5. Everyone was sitting at the table.

    Всі сиділи за столом.

    ruВсе сидели за столом.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose:
incubation of eggs; the clutch of eggs under a brooding bird:

Origin

From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zittin

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”).

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Forms

plural: sittings
Singularsitting
Pluralsittings

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait):posing
  • a meeting of spiritualists:seancesession

Word family

7 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • sitting on the
  • was sitting on
  • sitting in the
  • was sitting in
  • sitting next to
  • sitting over there
  • was sitting at
  • sitting at the
  • sitting on a
  • sitting next
  • sitting by himself
  • was sitting alone

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sitting — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto