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/sˈɪtɪŋ rum/ Listen

noun

Sitting n.

1.

The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

2.

A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

3.

The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.

4.

The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission. "The sitting closed in great agitation."

5.

The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc. "For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting."

6.

A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls. "The male bird... amuses her (the female) with his songs during the whole time of her sitting."

Sitting room, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.

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Etymology of 'Sitting room'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sitting room" Quotes from Famous Books

... le Moyne entered the Virginian's sitting room—that apartment where Dr. MacBride had wrestled with sin so ...

— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister

... In this way." They went into the sitting room and Varr spoke on the way of his recent activities in the tanning yard, a piece of foresight that Krech instantly applauded. "This is the window; it was either pushed open by main force, or the catch was pressed back ...

— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston

... him in this wise. He thought about it after he lay in his little cot in the sitting room that night; then his mind wandered to Joe Forbes and his wonderful tales of the West. He fell asleep to dream of cowboys and prairies. When he awoke the sun was sending golden beams through ...

— David Dunne - A Romance of the Middle West • Belle Kanaris Maniates

... sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sonya was sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the first he had ever written. Boris and Natasha ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... the parlor with his companion, talking in a cheerful, animated strain; and I heard him pull up the blinds and throw open the shutters. Presently he came tripping lightly up the stairs to my sitting room. ...

— Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper • T. S. Arthur

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