seating

Other forms of seating

plural

seatings·

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.

Questions about seating

What does seating mean?

seating means "an area that includes places where several people can sit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seating?

seating has 2 syllables: sea-ting. The stress falls on "sea". In IPA it is /ˈsitɪŋ/.

What is another word for seating?

Close synonyms include seats, seating room, seating area. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seating a common word?

seating is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.