sitter.
Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
Meaning & usage
Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
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.
A sitting room.
A participant in a séance who is not a medium.
A broody hen.
A very easy scoring chance.
How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!
Someone who accompanies a person who is taking a psychedelic drug, to provide reassurance in case of a bad trip.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sitter, sittere, syttare, equivalent to sit + -er.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.