seat

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
seat/siːt/

▶noun

• 1 a thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool.

  ■ the roughly horizontal part of a chair.

  ■ a sitting place for a passenger in a vehicle or for a member of an audience.

• 2 a person's buttocks.

  ■ a manner of sitting on a horse.

• 3 a place in an elected parliament or council.

  ■ Brit. a parliamentary constituency.

• 4 a site or location.

  ■ (also country seat) Brit. a large country house and estate belonging to an aristocratic family.

• 5 a part of a machine that supports or guides another part.

▶verb

• 1 arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere.

  ■ (seat oneself or be seated) sit down.

  ■ (of a building or vehicle) have sufficient seats for.

• 2 fit in position.

– derivatives
seating noun,
seatless adjective.

– origin ME (as n.): from ON sæti, from the Gmc base of sit.