Entry Word: sit

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to rest on the buttocks or haunches <everybody needs to sit down, or no one will be able to see the movie>

Synonyms set [chiefly dialect]

Related Words perch; lounge, slouch, sprawl, squat, straddle

Near Antonyms arise, get up, rise, stand

2 to cause to sit down <the host had to sit some of the guests on the porch> — see seat
3 to cover and warm eggs to hatch them <we didnʼt want to disturb the hens, as they were sitting> — see set 1
4 to occupy a place or location <the monument that sits at the entrance to the battlefield> — see stand 1