seated en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈsiːtɪd/
- (US) audio
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Sitting.
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(not-comparable) Of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt.
... but she was very conscious, too, of her Saturday-morning appearance - of her blouse, which she'd once unpicked and refashioned in an attempt at 'make-do and mend', and her old tweed skirt, rather seated at the back.
2011 February 3, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
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(not-comparable) Fixed; confirmed.
"Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?
1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution:
- (not-comparable) Located; situated.
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(not-comparable) Furnished with a seat.
There was a rush-seated chair with a hole in the seat, — and that […] seemed to be all that the room contained.
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
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Translations (2)
eo sidanta (sitting) · pl siedzący (sitting)