sitting

About 37.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
3. noun A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
4. noun The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
5. noun A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
6. noun The incubation of eggs by a bird.
7. noun A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

   we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs

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

   I read it in two sittings.

Similar words

seated posing unmoving nonmoving session seance seating seat standing staying

Often followed by

in on at down there up with room by

Word family

sittings