seats
/siːts/
verb
- To place someone in a sitting position; to provide seating for.
- The usher will seat you near the front of the hall.
- This restaurant seats up to 200 guests.
- Please seat yourself anywhere you like.
- To have or provide a specified number of seats.
- The conference room seats only twelve.
- Our minivan seats seven passengers comfortably.
- The new stadium seats 50,000 people.
Antonyms
noun
- Places designed for sitting, such as chairs, benches, or stools.
- All the seats on the bus were taken, so I had to stand.
- The theater has over 500 seats for the audience.
- We need to buy new seats for the dining table.
- Official positions as a member of a council, parliament, or committee.
- She won a seat in the city council election.
- The party gained three additional seats in parliament.
- He resigned his seat on the board of directors.
- The part of a chair or other object that you sit on.
- The bicycle seat needs to be adjusted higher.
- Please wipe the seat of the toilet after using it.
- The seat of this old chair is worn and uncomfortable.
- A place where something is based or centered.
- New York is a major seat of the financial industry.
- The university is a seat of learning and research.
- The ancient city was the seat of the kingdom's power.