sitting

Fetched 2026-10-27 (live).

Synonyms: setting, fitting, witting, sifting, shitting, pitting, hitting, slitting, silting, spitting, bitting

Antonyms: setting, fitting, witting, sifting, shitting, pitting, hitting, slitting, silting, spitting, bitting

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Noun

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.
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).
6. The incubation of eggs by a bird.
7. A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
   • we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
8. An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
   • I read it in two sittings.

Verb

1. present participle and gerund of sit

Adjective

1. Executed from a sitting position.
2. Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
3. Of a bird, incubating eggs.

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