sitting
A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
Noun 4 meanings
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.”
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.
Adjective 3 meanings
Executed from a sitting position.
Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
Of a bird, incubating eggs.
Etymology
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”).
SITTING at a glance
SITTING has 7 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (S 1 + I 1 + T 1 + T 1 + I 1 + N 1 + G 2) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,427 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with sitting
All rhymes- BEING8
- GOING7
- SOMETHING15
- DURING8
- THING9
- DOING7
- HAVING13
- GETTING9
- LOOKING12
- ANYTHING15
- NOTHING11
- EVERYTHING20
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