seat – English noun declension

English noun forms of seat

Noun: seat
Singularseat
Pluralseats

Sample Sentences

  • Several pressmen have nearly lost their lives, to say nothing of the seats of their trousers, from these creatures. [1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:]
  • I love these new biker pants I bought! There's padding in the seat to protect my rear end. [2006 July 20, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):]
  • There are two hundred seats in this classroom.
  • The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • […] Grand Union proposes making a seat part of the price of a ticket, with 50% refunds for those travelling for longer than 30 minutes unable to obtain a seat. [2019 October, “South Wales open access bid”, in Modern Railways, page 15:]
  • He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat, which always annoyed his mother.
  • the seat of a saddle
  • She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.
  • Hey, fighter boy, our radar's putting out enough energy to launch your seat from this distance!
  • Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".
  • The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.
  • The seat of the valve had become corroded.
  • Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.
  • Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.
  • The K'o-tzu-lo-su Kirghiz chou bordered on the K'o-shih chuan-ch'ü and its seat at A-t'u-shih was only twenty-five kilometers from K'o-shih shih. [1963, Henry G. Schwarz, Policies and Administration of Minority Areas in Northwest China and Inner Mongolia, 1949-1959, volume 2, →OCLC, page 338:]
  • But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness. [2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:]
  • A man of fortune, who lives in London, may, in plays, operas, routs, assemblies, French cookery, French sauces, and French wines, spend as much yearly, as he could do, were he to live in the most hospitable manner at his seat in the country. [1806, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England:]
  • Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 2:13:]
  • He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
  • a seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity [1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:]
  • I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind. [1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter XVII, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:]
  • She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. [1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:]
  • George was a perfect picture on horseback; he had a light, firm seat, and seemed as if he were a part of his horse, and was only happy when away in the saddle for hours together, mustering cattle or tracking a missing horse. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 85:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); compare Old English set (“seat”).
2. Noun sense 2 (“location or site”) is probably derived from Old English sǣte (“house”), which is related to Old High German sāza (“sedan, seat, domicile”).
3. Cognates
4. * Middle Dutch gesaete
5. * Old High German gisazi (modern German Gesäß) See: Middle English Nouns 'sete', Old English Nouns 'sǣte', Old Norse Nouns 'sæti', Old English Nouns 'set', Old English Nouns 'sǣte', German Nouns 'Gesäß'.

Verbs referencing "seat"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sete, German Nouns Gesäß, Danish Nouns sæde.