sitting.
A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
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”).
Executed from a sitting position.
Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
Of a bird, incubating eggs.
Where this word comes from
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”).
present participle and gerund of sit
Where this word comes from
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”).
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