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say it: seet
seat is a noun and verb meaning "a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)". It is pronounced /ˈsit/ — seet. It carries 16 recorded senses.
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
“he deserves a good kick in the butt”
“are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?”
furniture that is designed for sitting on
“there were not enough seats for all the guests”
any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)
“he dusted off the seat before sitting down”
a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based
“the brain is said to be the seat of reason”
the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body
“he was elected to a seat in the Senate”
a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for seat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.